Politics and Process

by Loren E. Lomasky and Geoffrey Brennan

Book Overview

Much of the most interesting and controversial work in analyzing democratic institutions over the recent past has its intellectual origins in public choice economics. The analytical apparatus derived for the study of human behavior in markets is applied to a political setting. The electoral process is viewed as a kind of market in which the currency is votes and party competition is the primary mechanism by which the policies that citizens want are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521350433
• ISBN13: 9780521350433
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"