Collective Decision Making

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Clifford S. Russell

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First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Résumé
First Published in 2011.This is Volume 11 of fourteen in the library collection of Policy and Government and looks at the applications from public choice theory on decision making. It brings together proceedings that look seek to answer the question for the forum, which was whether public choice theory offers promise of providing a firmer foundation for applied institutional research and for institutional innovations which could contribute to the solution of some of these problems.

Contenu

Introductory Remark; Applications of Public Choice Theory: An Introduction Public Choice in Practice; Super-Rationality and School Tax Voting; National Environmental Lobbies and the Apparent Illogic of Collective Action; Uphill and Downhill Battles and Contributions to Collective Action; The Application of Laboratory Experimental Methods to Public Choice; Practical Aspects of the Construction of Decentralized Decision-Making Systems for Public Goods; The Resource Allocation Role of Reviewing Courts: Common Law Functions in a Regulatory Era; International Resource Regimes; Political Applications of Social Choice Theory; Future Directions for Work in Public Choice