The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy in Argentina

by Pablo T. Spiller and Mariano Tommasi

Book Overview

The authors have two purposes in this book, and they succeed admirably at both. They develop a general model of public policy making focused on the difficulties of securing intertemporal exchanges among politicians. They combine the tools of game theory with Williamson's transaction cost theory, North's institutional arguments, and contract theory to provide a general theory of public policy making in a comparative political economy setting. They...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521145783
• ISBN13: 9780521145787
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"