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Democratic devices and desires
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ISBN: 1107115426 1280420219 0511175736 0511040075 0511156316 0511329202 0511490194 0511050895 9780511040078 9780511490194 0521630207 9780521630207 9780511050893 9780511156311 0521630207 9780521630207 0521639778 9780521639774 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book offers an account of key features of modern representative democracy. Working from the rational actor tradition, it builds a middle ground between orthodox political theory and the economic analysis of politics. Standard economic models of politics emphasise the design of the institutional devices of democracy as operated by essentially self-interested individuals. This book departs from that model by focusing on democratic desires alongside democratic devices, stressing that important aspects of democracy depend on the motivation of democrats and the interplay between devices and desires. Individuals are taken to be not only rational, but also somewhat moral. The authors argue that this approach provides access to aspects of the debate on democratic institutions that are beyond the narrowly economic model. They apply their analysis to voting, elections, representation, political departments and the separation and division of powers, providing a wide-ranging discussion of the design of democratic institutions.

The politics and economics of power
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ISBN: 0415185424 9780415185424 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Routledge


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The Economic limits to modern politics
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ISBN: 0521352835 0521421519 0511559178 Year: 1990 Volume: vol *2 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The central problem of modern government and political action is how to choose and implement effective economic policies. For this reason, the economic considerations of public policy have assumed a more prominent place in contemporary political thought. Despite efforts among political scientists, economists, and sociologists to fathom the complexities of this added dimension, none of these solid sciences offers a satisfying approach to the problem. This volume attempts to display the historical novelty and intellectual importance of this dilemma, to uncover its origins, and to procure a remedy through a clearer and steadier focus. The book's contributors range from historians of ideas to economic theorists, who bring the approach of their own intellectual discipline to bear upon the issue.


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Microcapitalisme : vers un nouveau pacte social
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ISBN: 9782130799924 2130799922 Year: 2017 Publisher: Paris: PUF,

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La 4e de couverture indique : "La révolution technologique bouleverse nos façons de produire, de consommer, de travailler et même de vivre. Airbnb, Blablacar et d'autres plateformes font de nous des "microcapitalistes", acteurs d'un environnement hyperconcurentiel porteur d'opportunités comme d'angoisses. Nos formes de travail mutent, notre modèle de croissance change en profondeur. Construit en 1945 dans un contexte de rareté et reconstruction, notre système économique et social est devenu inadapté. En s'appuyant sur nos textes fondateurs, l'auteur propose un pacte économique et social radicalement nouveau. Sans tabou ni compromis, une série de dispositifs cohérents combinent une liberté individuelle largement retrouvée avec une solidarité universelle, inclusive et efficace. La faisabilité financière est assurée par un système fiscal simple, juste et lisible, sans bouleverser les flux actuels de la redistribution. Un nouveau pacte social est possible. Le voulons-nous ?"


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Imperium : structures et affects des corps politiques
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ISBN: 9782358720700 2358720704 Year: 2015 Publisher: Paris : La fabrique éditions,

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Que faire des idéaux que sont l'internationalisme, le dépérissement de l'Etat et l'horizontalité radicale ? Les penser. Non pas sur le mode de la psalmodie mais selon leurs conditions de possibilité. Ou d'impossibilité ? C'est plutôt la thèse que ce livre défend, mais sous une modalité décisive : voir l'impossible sans désarmer de désirer l'impossible. C'est-à-dire, non pas renoncer, comme le commande le conservatisme empressé, mais faire obstinément du chemin. En sachant qu'on n'en verra pas le bout. Les hommes s'assemblent sous l'effet de forces passionnelles collectives dont Spinoza donne le principe le plus général : l'imperium - "ce droit que définit la puissance de la multitude". Cet ouvrage entreprend de déplier méthodiquement le sens et les conséquences de cet énoncé. Pour établir que la servitude passionnelle, qui est notre condition, nous voue à la fragmentation du monde en ensembles finis distincts, à la verticalité d'où ils tirent le principe de leur consistance, et à la capture du pouvoir. Il ne s'en suit nullement que l'émancipation ait à s'effacer de notre paysage mental - au contraire ! Mais elle doit y retrouver son juste statut : celui d'une idée régulatrice, dont l'horizon est le communisme de la raison.

Perspectives on public choice : a handbook
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ISBN: 0521556546 0521553776 0511664451 9780521553773 9780521556545 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions of the field. It contains twenty-five essays written by thirty scholars, both economists and political scientists, from North America and Europe. Part I discusses the nature and justification for the existence of government and various forms it can take, including mixed, private, and public institutions, international organizations, federalisms, and constitutional governments. Part II examines the properties of different voting rules and preference aggregation procedures. Part III explores multiparty systems, interest groups, logrolling and political business cycles. The individual decisionmaker is the focus of Part IV, with surveys of the experimental literature on individual behavior, and why people vote as they do. The final section applies public-choice reasoning to bureaucracy, taxation, and the size of government.

The economics of public choice : contemporary issues in the public economy of governing
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ISBN: 1852785144 1858985226 9781858985220 9781852785147 Year: 1996 Publisher: Aldershot Elgar

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