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Architects of political change : constitutional quandaries and social choice theory / Norman Schofield.
- Title
- Architects of political change : constitutional quandaries and social choice theory / Norman Schofield.
- Author
- Schofield, Norman, 1944-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 317 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This work offers a set of extended interpretations of Madison's argument in Federalist X of 1787, using ideas from social choice theory and from the work of Douglass North, Mancur Olson, and William Riker. Its focus is not on social choice theory itself, but on the use of this theory as a heuristic device to better understand democratic institutions. The treatment adapts a formal model of elections to consider rapid constitutional change at periods when societies face social quandaries."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Political economy of institutions and decisions
- Uniform Title
- Political economy of institutions and decisions.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Case studies (form)
- History (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-307) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Constitutional quandaries and social choice -- Power and social choice -- Franklin and the War of Independence -- Madison, Jefferson, and Condorcet -- Lincoln and the Civil War -- Johnson and the critical realignment of 1964 -- Keynes and the Atlantic constitution -- Preferences and beliefs -- Political change.
- ISBN
- 0521832020 (hardback)
- 0521539722 (pbk.)
- 9780521832021
- 9780521539722
- LCCN
- ^^2006004120
- OCLC
- 63692681
- SCSB-9894010
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library