Competitive Governments: An Economic Theory of Politics and Public Finance

by Albert Breton

Book Overview

Competitive Governments, explores in a systematic way the hypothesis that governments are internally competitive, that they are competitive in their relations with each other and in their relations with other institutions in society which, like them, supply consuming households with goods and services. Breton contends that competition not only serves to bring the political system to an equilibrium, but it also leads to a revelation of the households'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521646286
• ISBN13: 9780521646284
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"