Full Description
First published in 1991. This book initially offers a critique of some key rational public choice models, to show that they were internally inconsistent and ideologically slanted. Then due to the authors' research the ideas are restructured around a particular kind of institutional public choice method, recognizing the value of instrumental models as a mode of thinking clearly about the manifold complexities of political life.
Contents
Introduction: Institutional Public Choice Theory and Political Analysis
DEMOCRACY
Interest Groups and Collective Action
Reconstructing the Theory of Groups
Economic Explanations of Voting Behaviour
Party Competition - The Preference-Shaping Model
BUREAUCRACY
Existing Public Choice Models of Bureaucracy
The Bureau-Shaping Model
Comparing Budget - Maximizing and Bureau-Shaping Models
Conclusion - Economic Explanations in Political Science
