Property rights lie at the heart of the economic success of any economy and the extent to which its citizens enjoy economic freedom. At a time when Eastern Europe is breaking free from the yoke of collectivist-socialist ideas, this book presents essays by four political economists evaluating a...

This is a very simple essay, arguing that Dewey's emphasis on democracy as a social rather than a political system that aims to create a 'great community' or 'community of communities' must be supplemented by more 'realism' about the basis of democratic politics in practice, and less...

This paper starts with the observation that almost all military dictatorships that democratize become presidential democracies. I hypothesize that military interests are able to coordinate on status-preserving institutional change prior to democratization and therefore prefer political...