The Calculus of Consent and Constitutional Design
Buchanan and Tullock’s seminal work, The Calculus of Consent, linked economic methodology to substantive questions in political science. Among the major contributions of their book is a connection between constitutional decision making and contractarianis
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Series Editor Randall G. Holcombe Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA Founding Editor Gordon Tullock George mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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Keith L. Dougherty • Julian Edward
The Calculus of Consent and Constitutional Design
Keith L. Dougherty Department of Political Science University of Georgia Athens Georgia 30602 USA [email protected]
Julian Edward Department of Mathematics Florida International University Miami Florida 33199 USA [email protected]
ISSN 0924-4700 ISBN 978-0-387-98170-3 e-ISBN 978-0-387-98171-0 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-98171-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011923652 © 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)
Praise for The Calculus of Consent and Constitutional Design
“The Calculus of Consent is one of the founding documents of the Public Choice school, and one of the most important books in political science in the last century. So it takes an ambitious book to promise to extend, and in some cases correct, the Buchanan and Tullock work. But Dougherty and Edward deliver on that promise. Make no mistake: this is much more than a reevaluation and update of the classic work. Dougherty and Edward bring these classic debates back to life, using the most recent literature and techniques. This book will be on dozens of graduate reading lists within a year of being published.” - Michael Munger, Professor of Political Science and Professor of Economics, Duke University and Past President, Public Choice Society “Dougherty and Edwards have written an excellent book. Its title echoes the classic work by Buchanan and Tullock. The authors re-examine, formalize and provide new insights into some of the main issues addressed in that classic and examine alternative properties of various electoral mechanisms. This book will be of significant interest to both political scientists and practitioners.” - Annick Laruelle and Federico Valenciano, University of the Basque Country and Ikerbasque, authors of Voting and Collective Decision (2008)
To my wife Anjali and mother Bonnie, so they may know how much I love them. -Keith To my wife Pam and child
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