The Economic Theory Of Representative Government

Author : Orville Brim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351304542
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Theory of Representative Government written by Orville Brim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a theory capable of explaining the patterns of public expenditures and taxation that occur under representative government. Economists and political scientists have come to realize that issues of public policy and public finance cannot be solved on the naive assumption that these are problems tackled by a government that exists only to serve the public good. Instead, government must be understood as one of the major economic institutions of society, one that behaves like more familiar economic institutions--the household and the firm--though the market it confronts is a market for policies rather than for goods and services. Albert Breton's pathbreaking work remains important in taking us toward a theory of representative government that enables an understanding of the observed behavior of political institutions. The author's analysis is cast in a relatively simple demand, supply and demand-supply-equilibrium framework, using the tools of marginal and stability analysis to explain the forces that influence and determine the flow of resources as they are allocated between competing ends in the public sector. The book presents a model of demand by citizens, who are assumed to be maximizing their desires for specific public policies and private goods, and a model of the supply of public policies by politicians and bureaucrats, who are assumed to be maximizing the probability of their re-election and the size of their budgets. Breton defines government policies and the institutional framework for collective choices in terms that render them amenable to further analysis. The main accomplishment of Breton's theory is that it provides the ability to analyze the interaction of individuals and generates testable propositions about the behavior of these individuals as well as about the behavior of public expenditures and taxation in more aggregative terms. In this way the book will be useful to students of economics, economists, and those interested in economic theory.

Author : Albert Breton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349023876
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Theory of Representative Government written by Albert Breton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis F. Thompson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400868580
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Stuart Mill and Representative Government written by Dennis F. Thompson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Mill regarded Considerations on Representative Government as a mature statement of his theory of democracy, critics have tended to treat it less seriously than most of his other major works. Dennis Thompson argues that this neglect has led to inadequate interpretations of Mill's thought on democracy. Drawing where appropriate on other writings by Mill, the author restores a balanced view by studying the structure of the theory expounded in Representative Government. Representative Government is shown to be more coherent and systematic than has generally been assumed. In the first two chapters the author examines separately Mill's views of political participation and competence. He then considers the philosopher's effort to combine participation and competence at any particular time in a theory of government and to reduce conflict between them over time in a theory of development. Basic features of Mill's view are subjected to critical scrutiny, and modifications are suggested to overcome the deficiencies noted. Throughout, Mill's claims are compared with the ideas and findings of recent social science, leading to the conclusion that his theory remains a valuable resource for contemporary thinking about democracy. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jr. Niskanen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351530410
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy and Representative Government written by Jr. Niskanen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to develop a formal theory of supply by bureaus. Niskanen develops an original and comprehensive theory of the behavior of bureaus with the institutions of representative government. He challenges the traditional view that monopoly bureaus are the best way to organize the public sector, and he suggests ways to use competitive bureaus and private firms to perform operations such as delivering mail, fighting wars, or running schools more efficiently than the present government agencies.The theory concludes that most bureaus are too large, grow too fast, use too much capital, and exploit their sponsor. His theory explains the relation of the output and budget of a bureau to demand and cost decisions. It compares bureaus with other forms of organization facing like conditions and delineates the production and investment behavior of a bureau, the behavior of nonprofit firms with no sponsor, the behavior of mixed bureaus with financing from a sponsor and from the sale of services, the effects of competition between a bureau and a competitive industry.The book also develops a simple theory of the market for public services financed through a representative government; the final section suggests a set of changes to improve the performance of our bureaucratic and political institutions, based both on theory and Niskanen's professional experience. It is essential reading for professionals and students in the social sciences and could prove instrumental in reforming some of our government institutions.

Author : Ryan Amacher
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501741012
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Approach to Public Policy written by Ryan Amacher and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can traditional economic theory help to solve today's vexing social problems? This unique collection of thirty-six papers strongly suggests that it can. The economic approach is applied imaginatively by the authors to a wide range of contemporary issues, such as crime, higher education, the environment, revenue sharing, equity, justice, and the distribution of income. The articles also deal with governmental behavior and the role of the economist as governmental adviser. Shaped during the preparation and teaching of college classes, the book is well suited for courses in principles of economics, microeconomics, price theory, and public policy development and analysis. It should also prove a useful reference work for policy makers.

Author : Anthony Downs
Publisher : New York : Harper
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Economic Theory of Democracy written by Anthony Downs and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1957 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to elucidate its subject-the governing of democratic state-by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics. His explanations are systematically related to, and deducible from, precisely stated assumptions about the motivations that attend the decisions of voters and parties and the environment in which they act. He is consciously concerned with the economy in explanation, that is, with attempting to account for phenomena in terms of a very limited number of facts and postulates. He is concerned also with the central features of party politics in any democratic state, not with that in the United States or any other single country.

Author : William A. Niskanen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0202364453
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy and Representative Government written by William A. Niskanen and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Considerations on Representative Government written by John Stuart Mill and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William A. Niskanen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858980195
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy and Public Economics written by William A. Niskanen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R.E. McCormick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400981538
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politicians, Legislation, and the Economy written by R.E. McCormick and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: