TY  - BOOK
AU  - Congleton,Roger D.
AU  - Swedenborg,Birgitta
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Democratic constitutional design and public policy: analysis and evidence 
AV  - JF51 .D46 2006eb
U1  - 320.6 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Comparative government
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Political science
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Rational choice theory
KW  - Political planning
KW  - Policy sciences
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for Business and Policy Studies; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Rational choice politics and institutions / Roger D. Congleton and Birgitta Swedenborg -- Direct democracy : designing a living constitution / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Constitutions and economic policy / Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini -- Party-line voting and committee assignments in the mixed-member system / Thomas Stratmann -- The effects of constitutions on coalition governments in parliamentary democracies / Daniel Diermeier, Hülya Eraslan, and Antonio Merlo -- On the merits of bicameral legislatures : intragovernmental bargaining and policy stability / Roger D. Congleton -- Bicameralism and political compromise in representative democracy / John Charles Bradbury and W. Mark Crain -- Federalism : a constitutional perspective / Dennis C. Mueller -- Common tax pool problems in federal systems / Brian Knight -- Judicial independence and economic development / Lars P. Feld and Stefan Voigt -- Constitutions and prosperity : the impact of legal and economic institutions on the wealth of nations / Randall G. Holcombe, Robert A. Lawson, and James D. Gwartney -- Amendment procedures and constitutional stability / Bjørn Erik Rasch and Roger D. Congleton -- Designing constitutional stability / Barry R. Weingast; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10173627
ER  -