Democracy and Welfare Economics, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Van Den Doel, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521436370 ISBN 13: 9780521436373

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This is a fully revised and updated version of Hans van der Doel's Democracy and Welfare Economics. It presents the economic theory of political decision-making (otherwise knownn as new political economy, or public choice), providing students with an accessible and clear introduction to this important subject. The authors identify four different methods of decision-making by which the political process transforms the demands of individual citizens into government policy and public goods and services: negotiation, majority decision, representations and bureaucratic implementation. These are analysed, in turn, as independent decision-making models whose effectiveness is examined with reference to economic theory. A final chapter draws conclusions from this analysis, arguing that the size of the public sector is a result of forces that work in different directions at different stages of the political process.

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This is a fully revised and updated version of Hans van den Doel's Democracy and welfare economics. It presents the economic theory of political decision-making (otherwise know as new political economy, or public choice), providing students with an accessible and clear introduction to this important subjects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521436370
• ISBN 13: 9780521436373
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224