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Democratic constitutional design and public policy : analysis and evidence
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Democratic constitutional design and public policy : analysis and evidence

Author: Roger D Congleton; Birgitta Swedenborg
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : English
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Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Roger D Congleton; Birgitta Swedenborg
ISBN: 0262033496 9780262033497 0262532808 9780262532808
OCLC Number: 62290632
Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for Business and Policy Studies.
Description: viii, 373 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Direct democracy : designing a living constitution / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Constitutions and economic policy / Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini -- Party-line voting and committee assignments in the mixed-member system / Thomas Stratmann -- The effects of constitutions on coalition governments in parliamentary democracies / Daniel Diermeier, Hülya Eraslan, and Antonio Merlo -- On the merits of bicameral legislatures : intragovernmental bargaining and policy stability / Roger D. Congleton -- Bicameralism and political compromise in representative democracy / John Charles Bradbury and W. Mark Crain -- Federalism : a constitutional perspective / Dennis C. Mueller -- Common tax pool problems in federal systems / Brian Knight -- Judicial independence and economic development / Lars P. Feld and Stefan Voigt -- Constitutions and prosperity : the impact of legal and economic institutions on the wealth of nations / Randall G. Holcombe, Robert A. Lawson, and James D. Gwartney -- Amendment procedures and constitutional stability / Bjørn Erik Rasch and Roger D. Congleton -- Designing constitutional stability / Barry R. Weingast.
Responsibility: edited by Roger D. Congleton and Birgitta Swedenborg.
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