The Competitive State Villa Colombella Papers on Competitive Politics
I. The concept of competition played a central role in the very first attempts to apply the tools of economics to the analysis of politics. Adopting Hotelling's (1929) industrial organization model of imperfect competition in markets in which space has a predominant role, Downs (1957), followin...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1991, 1991
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1991 |
| Series: | International Studies in Economics and Econometrics
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Table of Contents:
- One: Checks and Balances in the Supply of Government Policies
- The organization of competition in congressional and parliamentary governments
- Political checks and balances and the structure of taxation in the United States and Canada
- Competition within the Italian Public Sector
- Two: New Dimensions of Electoral Competition
- The role of deception in political competition
- Policy decisions and the competiton for symbolic resources
- The number of parties and political competition
- Tectonic policies and political competition
- Political competition and the rise of dictatorship
- Three: International Aspects of Political Competition
- Checks and balances and international openness
- Constitutions as the outcome of imperfect spatial competition
- Four: Competition and the Law
- A competitive model of legal rules
- The market for characteristics of property rights