Hayek (1960) distinguishes the institutions of English freedom, which guarantee the independence of judges from … political interference in the administration of justice, from those of American freedom, which allow judges to restrain law … reflect these institutions of English and American freedom, and ask whether these rules predict economic and political freedom …

electoral rules and forms of government for fiscal policy and rent extraction, even when non-random constitution selection is … taken into account. Second, empirical tests of the predictions from a new comprehensive model of parliamentary democracy …

The monetary powers embedded in the U.S. Constitution were revolutionary and led to a watershed transformation in the …

A self-enforcing constitution creates a political process that provides an alternative to civil conflict for resolving … possible to design such a self-enforcing constitution. The paper is also concerned with discovering generic features of a self …-enforcing constitution. The analysis yields the following theoretical propositions: If and only if (1) none of the parties to a dispute …

Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped … representative democracy. The basic association, however, is conditioned on the relative strength of the indigenous groups within a …

parliamentary democracies (Europe) and presidential-congressional systems (USA) to show that increasing tax competition is likely to …

stabilizers in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …