Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice: Economic Approaches in Political Science

ISBN-13: 9780745002330 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 300 str.

Patrick Dunleavy

Opis

Public choice approaches have revolutionized contemporary political science, particularly in the United States, where a "new right" political movement has developed. This book develops a critique of new right views through its coverage of aspects of the public choice/new right literature.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Institutional Public Choice Theory and Political Analysis
   DEMOCRACY
2. Interest Groups and Collective Action
3. Reconstructing the Theory of Groups
4. Economic Explanations of Voting Behaviour
5. Party Competition - The Preference-Shaping Model
   BUREAUCRACY
6. Existing Public Choice Models of Bureaucracy
7. The Bureau-Shaping Model
8. Comparing Budget - Maximizing and Bureau-Shaping Models
9. Conclusion - Economic Explanations in Political Science

O autorze

Professor Patrick Dunleavy (Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science.)