One: Checks and Balances in the Supply of Government Policies -- The organization of competition in congressional and parliamentary governments -- Political checks and balances and the structure of taxation in the United States and Canada -- Competition within the Italian Public Sector -- Two:...

This book is a selection of papers presented at the Fourth Villa Colombella seminar on the topic of the relationship between the preferences of citizens for public policies and how (or whether) these get expressed as political demands by interest groups, political parties and governments....

The traditional school of economic policy analysis predicts that globalisation will give rise to predatory competition between the governments of the European nation states. The consequence is anticipated to be a marked reduction in, if not the destruction of, the benevolent Welfare State. The...

Acquiescence to opacity / Pierre Salmon and Alain Wolfelsperger -- Citizens' knowledge, politicians' duplicity / Russell Hardin -- Transparency and efficiency / Albert Breton -- The artist as a secret agent : liberalism against populism / Manfred J. Holler -- Jihad vs. McWorld : a rational...