Constitutional Mythologies New Perspectives on Controlling the State
Our societies obviously rest on common beliefs. These "myths" are tools that help us to develop and build common identities; they form the structure around which societies function. This does not imply that these beliefs are “true,” in the sense that they
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Constitutional Mythologies New Perspectives on Controlling the State
Editor Alain Marciano Université de Montpellier I and LAMETA-CNRS Faculté d’Economie Rue Raymond Dugrand CS 79606 F-34960 Montpellier
Cedex 2 France [email protected]
ISSN 0924-4700 ISBN 978-1-4419-6783-1 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-6784-8 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6784-8 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011934053 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
1 Introduction: Constitutional Myths......................................................... Alain Marciano 2 Consent or Coercion? A Critical Analysis of the Constitutional Contract.................................................................. Randall G. Holcombe
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3 Agent Type, Social Contracts, and Constitutional Mythologies............ Peter Boettke and Alexander Fink
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4 Constitutions, Politics, and Identity......................................................... Alan Hamlin
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5 Is the “Veil of Ignorance” in Constitutional Choice a Myth? An Empirical Exploration Informed by a Theory of Power.................. Louis M. Imbeau and Steve Jacob
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6 Checks and Balances at the OK Corral: Restraining Leviathan.......... Atin Basuchoudhary, Michael Reksulak, and William F. Shughart II
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7 Popular Sovereignty: A Case Study from the Antebellum Era............. Elizabeth Dale
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8 Direct Democracy and the Constitution.................................................. 107 Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer, and Susanne Neckerman 9 Parallelisms and Paralogisms in the European Court of Justice........... 121 Giuseppe Eusepi, Alessandra Cepparulo, and Maurizio Intartaglia
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10 The Dual Rationale of Judicial Independence....................................... 135 Fabien Gélinas 11 Comparison of Central Bank and Judicial Independence................... 155 George Tridimas 12 Making and Implementing the Rules of the Game: The
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