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of democracies in unitary and federal states are investigated. The dynamics of public choice are considered in the theory …
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This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two ideologically different political parties compete for power. Their primary instrument in this competition are programmatic concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any...
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This essay analyzes liberal explanations of social order. Throughout exposition, Ovejero suggests the convenience of reviewing two central insights of liberalism, related with the way that the “problem” of social order is stated and its “solution” through the market. The “problem” is...
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. In fact, any human action is the outcome of a process of thought which means that there is no action without theory …. Therefore, the necessity of theorizing is not debatable, but the important problem is to select the most relevant theory. From … this point of view it is striking that most commentators did not refer to the most relevant theory to explain the recent …
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between public choice theory of political decision making and constitutional economics, and the failure of economists as …
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In this paper, I oppose the Misesian insight on the problem of bureaucracy to the theory of Niskanen. Assuming that … theory to the study of bureaucratic behavior, Niskanen shows that bureaucrats have a strong incentive to try to maximize the …
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The purpose of this paper is to consider some of the challenges lying ahead of policy makers in the context of regional development. Regional economic development encompasses the economics and other resources that a region can mobilize for its own sustainable development and competitiveness. It...
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We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social mobility affect the choices of redistributional taxes. In the absence of social mobility, voters choose tax rates that are very well in line with the prediction derived in the...
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This paper analyzes the role of narrowly selfish and other-regarding preferences for the median voter in a Meitzer-Richard (1981) framework. We use computerized and real human co-players to distinguish between these sets of motivations. Redistribution to real co-players has a negative effect on...
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This paper analyses the effects of the recent Economic Crisis on individual preferences for redistribution in 23 European countries. After implementing a decomposition of the variation in these preferences, it is showed that the crisis was highly significant in increasing support for...
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