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Endogenous preferences: a challenge to constitutional political economy’s normative foundation?

autonomy, Vanberg’s approach of constitutional political economy (CPE) underestimates the complexity of preference endogeneity. While von Weizsäcker’s approach is a refinement of the CPE framework, the paper ... political economy and social philosophy (pp. 13 - 37 ). Palgrave Macmillan. Sugden , R. ( 2020 ). The community of advantage: An interview with Robert Sugden . Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics

Correction to: Richard E. Wagner (Ed.): James M. Buchanan—A theorist of political economy and social philosophy

Faculty of Economics, Law, and Social Sciences, University of Erfurt , Erfurt , Germany 1 NOUS Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany Vol.:(012134536789

Political polarization in the UK: measures and socioeconomic correlates

This paper evaluates the political polarization in the UK and analyzes its socioeconomic correlates based on detailed county-level panel data constructed from the British Household Panel Survey ... characterized by similar statistical properties, which implies they can be used interchangeably in the quantitative analysis. The empirical evaluation of the determinants of political polarization suggests that

Political inequality, political participation, and support for populist parties

We theoretically investigate how political abstention among certain social groups encourages populist parties to enter the political stage, trying to absorb inactive voters. We design a two-stage ... tax rate proposal and on general party ideology. Effective political participation requires a certain amount of financial, social and intellectual resources to, for example, evaluate party programs or

Environmentalism, a flirt with eco-authoritarianism and the robustness of ordoliberalism

climate change. The research agenda of Robust Political Economy analyses the performance of institutional orders under conditions where human agents are neither perfectly rational and informed nor perfectly ... economy as (1) a driver of technology, (2) a driver of coordination and (3) a driver of community. Second, I point at the green ordoliberal focus on universalizable political rules which decrease the

Clubbing in trade policies: How much a threat to the multilateral constitution?

, as is compliance with (trade) agreements. By focusing on the political economy of how cooperation in trade liberalization is ultimately sustained via the threat of retaliation as institutionalized ... political economy; World trade constitution; Trade liberalization; Compliance 1 Introduction Over the past two decades, progress in multilateral trade liberalization as codified under the roof of the World

Advance voting and political competition

This paper appears to be the first to analyse political campaign incentives when the electorate vote at different moments before Election Day, a phenomenon known as early or advance voting. Many ... ; Political competition 1 Introduction Early voting is on the rise. Having been a peripheral activity in most advanced countries for the lion’s share of the twentieth century, early voting has in recent years

How cooperative is “cooperative federalism”? The political limits to intergovernmental cooperation under a de facto concurrency rule

preferences relative to the status quo, policy development costs, and the risk of costly political backlash. We pair our theoretical analysis with a study of Canadian federalism jurisprudence and its impact on ... provinces vary in both political importance and preferences 2 Future modelling work may probe the impact of different paramountcy rules on cooperative outcomes. 3 Our thanks to Jacob T. Levy for drawing our

Hume’s liberalism based on Scottish jurisprudence

). Moral Phenomenology and Hutcheson and Hume . Journal of History of Philosophy , 47 ( 4 ): 569 - 594 . Hume , D. ( 1985 ). Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, revised edition by Eugene F . Miller ... philosophy, as in the case of Scottish legal philosophy. The argument is developed over seven sections (including this introduction and the concluding remarks). Section 1 shows the similarity between Hume’s

Economic elites and the constitutional design of sharing political power

settings, we argue that political power-sharing institutions can also be the result of common disputes within the economic elite. We propose that these institutions are likely to emerge and persist when ... diverging economic interests. Economic elites; Power-sharing institutions; Institutional design; Political economy; Elite competition - JEL Classification P16 · P48 · Q34 · D02 · C26 · P52 Authors’ names

The Maltese single transferable vote experience: a case study of gerrymandering?

Re-drawing the electoral boundaries to provide benefit to one particular political party and thereby damaging the principle of representation in democracy has been a core issue in political science ... issue in political science in the recent years. For years social scientists have been advocating the idea of measuring or preventing the potential for damage that may arise from the existence of the above

Geoffrey Brennan

, L. ( 1984 ). Inefficient Unanimity . Journal of Applied Philosophy . 1 ( 1 ): 151 163. Brennan , G. , and Buchanan , J.M. ( 1984 ). Voter Choice: Evaluating Political Alternatives . American ... Philosophy . 64 ( 4 ): 438 - 455 . Brennan , G. , and Pettit , P. ( 1990 ). Unveiling the Vote . British Journal of Political Science . 20 ( 3 ): 311 - 333 . Brennan , G. , and Pettit , P. ( 1993 ). Hands

The political economy of euro area sovereign debt restructuring

Parliament, the European Central Bank and national governments. The empirical section takes advantage of the recently established EMU Positions Database. The findings confirm political economy expectations ... constitution that includes an insolvency procedure whereas a coalition of high-debt countries and European institutions oppose it. The analysis points towards a possible political-economic equilibrium for coping

Fake marriages, asylum, and gas station robberies: institutional determinants of migrants

I study institutional and political determinants of migrants’ immigration strategies using the United States’ immigration system as a case study. Drawing from work that theoretically connects ... incentives it provides as an explanation. Institutions are often described as the ‘‘rules of the game,’’ those ‘‘humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic and social interaction’’ (North

Making exit costly but efficient: the political economy of exit clauses and secession

organization: The case of the European Economic Community . Israel Law Review , 20 , 282 - 298 . Weinstock , D. ( 2001 ). Constitutionalizing the right to secede . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 9 ( 2 ... , Belgium This article presents a political economic analysis of exit from federations. After the federation has formed, members' benefits from it may be different than expected. If a member ends up not

Electoral reform: the case for majority judgment

Press. Morreau , M. ( 2021 ). Democracy without enlightenment: A jury theorem for evaluative voting . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 29 ( 2 ), 188 - 210 . Moulin , H. ( 1988 ). Axioms of ... with majority grade Good, then 3 with the majority grade of Acceptable and 1 Inadequate. The political move‑ ment LaREM (Emmanuel Macron’s party) adopted MJ in 2020; 3000 local repre‑ sentatives were

Review for constitutional political economy of the book by George C. Bitros, Emmanouil M. L. Economou and Nicholas C. Kyriazis

America, on the basis of theoretical arguments taken from monetary economics and political science and based on a model economy: ancient Athens in the classical period. The ideal is at a distance of 2500 ...  8 asks what alternatives to common modern central banking existed in history and attempts to prove that free banking is to be preferred. Chapter  9 relates the economic to the political institutions

Ordoliberalism goes China? A comparison of recent developments in EU and chinese competition law considering the digital economy

constitutional political economy, China can serve as a valuable point of comparison with the ordoliberal and the European views on competition policy. For some years now, the unparalleled collection of real-time ... data has allowed the Chinese government to maintain political control, while enabling a growing private sector to train algorithms on incredibly detailed datasets to offer innovative consumer products

The renaissance of ordoliberalism in the 1970s and 1980s*

disciplines (including, e.g., economics, political science, law, sociology), focuses mostly on the arguments of the founding generation of ordolib1 For an introduction to ordoliberalism and the Freiburg School ... supposedly under-provided by the market. The rise of the productive state drew attention to the importance of the public administration as a political actor in its own right. Referencing the pioneering work of

Testing public reaction to constitutional fiscal rules violations

-election prospects. This is one of the main arguments for explaining why constitutional fiscal rules tend to be more effective in correcting for political deficit bias vis-à-vis statutory rules. In this ... expressed in terms of a quantitative indicator for fiscal performance (Kopits & Symansky, 1998, p. 2) . The goal of fiscal rules is to correct for the so-called political deficit bias, i.e., the propensity