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020			_a9781847200648
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082			_a320.5315 _bPAR/P
245		0	_aPublic choice and the challenges of democracy: New thinking in political economy/ _cedited by José Casas Pardo and Pedro Schwartz
260			_aCheltenham, UK: _bEdward Elgar, _c2007.
300			_a366 p.
505			_aIntroduction / José Casas Pardo and Pedro Schwartz -- Threats democracy faces: an overview / José Casas Pardo -- Social justice examined: with a little help from Adam Smith / Anthony de Jasay -- Affective public choice / Frans van Winden -- Bentham on public choice: utility, interests and the agency problem in democracy / Pedro Schwartz -- Towards a more consistent design of parliamentary democracy and its consequences for the European Union / Charles B. Blankart and Dennis C. Mueller -- Democracy, citizen sovereignty and constitutional economics / Viktor J. Vanberg -- Diffuse and popular interests versus concentrated interests: the fate of environmental policies in divided government / Giorgio Brosio -- Should the democratic model be applied to non-governmental organizations and firms? / Pascal Salin -- Citizenship and democracy in international organizations / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Law and economic development: common law versus civil law / Francisco Cabrillo -- A reformulation of voting theory / William A. Niskanen -- Informational limits to public policy: ignorance and the jury theorem / Roger D. Congleton -- Democratic decision, stability of outcome and agent power, with special reference to the European Union / Manfred J. Holler and Stefan Napel -- The unequal treatment of voters under a single transferable vote: implications for electoral welfare with an application to the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly elections / Vani K. Borooah -- The pattern of democracy in the twentieth century: a study of the Polity index / Peter Sandholt Jensen and Martin Paldam -- Democracy and low-income countries / Arye L. Hillman -- A theory of the democratic fiscal constitution / Francesco Forte and Domenico D' Amico -- (When) do tax increases cause electoral damage?: the case of local property taxes in Spain / Núria Bosch Roca and Albert Solé-Ollé -- The mystery of Brazil / Gordon Tullock
650			_aDemocracy
650			_aSocial choice
700			_aPardo, Jose Casas, ed.
700			_aSchwartz, Pedro, ed.
942			_cWB16