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Law & Public Choice: A Critical Introduction - Hardcover

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9780226238029: Law & Public Choice: A Critical Introduction
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226238024 ISBN 13: 9780226238029
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Synopsis

In Law and Public Choice, Daniel Farber and Philip Frickey present a remarkably rich and accessible introduction to the driving principles of public choice. In this, the first systematic look at the implications of social choice for legal doctrine, Farber and Frickey carefully review both the empirical and theoretical literature about interest group influence and provide a nonmathematical introduction to formal models of legislative action. Ideal for course use, this volume offers a balanced and perceptive analysis and critique of an approach which, within limits, can illuminate the dynamics of government decision-making. "Law and Public Choice is a most valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature. It should be of great interest to lawyers, political scientists, and all others interested in issues at the intersection of government and law."--Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School

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About the Author

Daniel A. Farber is the Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. Philip P. Frickey is professor of law at the University of Minnesota.

From the Back Cover

The focus of public law is legislation. Constitutional law studies the limits on legislative power; administrative law studies how statutes are implemented by agencies; fields like discrimination law and environmental law focus on how to apply particular federal statutes. Yet, even though legislation is central to public law, legal scholars have only recently begun to devote serious attention to the legislative process. This book is intended to help fill that gap, by considering how some of the 'new learning' from the social sciences can illuminate issues of public law.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226238024
ISBN 13 
9780226238029
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
176