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it resides in the morphing of a constitutional system of limited democracy into one of progressivist or oligarchic … democracy. The clear and present danger is that the present crisis will end up strengthening the conservative forces of … progressivist democracy and its program of continually extending the reach of politics into society. The avoidance of that danger …
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The growth of the 17th century French state contributed to the establishment to a more regular, and even liberal legal order. Higher fiscal demands on the state led to a process of legal standardization that extended the rule of law. We use data on witch trials and taxation covering twenty-one...
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The bulk of James Buchanan's contributions to political economy occupy 20 volumes in Liberty Fund's collection of his works. Reading those works shows both that Buchanan injected new strands of thought into that tradition and that his oeuvre contains points of apparent incoherence. To speak of a...
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Prevailing ideology holds that democracy is a system of government where people govern themselves. This ideology …
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James Buchanan's protective state emerges at the constitutional level and protects the core rights of citizens via internal security, contract enforcement, and defense against external threats. This paper focuses on the potential for the protective state to produce anti-liberty outcomes. I...
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This paper explores the interventionist mindset required for success under the U.S. government's foreign policy … mentality is incentivized by government bureaus which reward those who successfully implement the government's foreign policy …
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to illuminate the puzzle in political economy regarding effective government constraints, or questions of how to ‘tame … polycentric institutions for generating incentives compatible for reducing the size of government. Furthermore, we argue that … public debt can be reduced by decentralizing money because it would eliminate the federal government's option of monetizing …
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and security is a pure public good that must be provided by a national government, (2) that state-provided defense is …
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This paper examines the role of prisoner voice in criminal justice reform in the US. Previous research has attributed reform of criminal justice institutions to either political elites or the public. This research has not considered the role of prisoner voice in influencing reform. This paper...
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