Democratic devices and desires /
This book offers a novel approach to the analysis of democracy, and an application of that approach to a variety of democratic institutions, including elections, representation, political parties and the separation of powers. Standard economic approaches to politics concentrate on the design of inst...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000
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| Series: | Theories of institutional design.
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Table of Contents:
- Democratic desires. On human nature: beyond homo economicus
- Moral dispositions
- Economising on virtue
- Political mechanisms
- Mechanisms and dispositional choice
- Problems of democratic politics
- Democratic devices. Voting and elections
- Political representation
- Political parties
- The separation of powers
- The division of power.
