Economic Dimensions of Constitutional Change
Author: Douglas D. Purvis
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Douglas D. Purvis
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stefan Voigt
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stefan Voigt examines the emergence of constitutions and how and why they change. He proposes that they are based on spontaneously-developed institutions and presents predictions on the scope of change under various setting and factors.
Author: Robin W. Boadway
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780889116061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tony Prosser
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0199644535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There has been little analysis of the constitutional framework for management of the UK economy, either in constitutional law or regulatory studies. This is in contrast to many other countries where the concept of an 'economic constitution' is well established, as it is in the law of the European Union. Given the extensive role of the state in attempting to resolve recent financial crises in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, it is particularly important to develop such an analysis. This book sets out different meanings of an economic constitution, and applies them to key areas of economic management, including taxation and public borrowing, the management of public spending, (including the Spending Review), monetary policy, financial services regulation, industrial policy (including state shareholdings) and government contracting. It analyses the key institutions involved such as the Treasury and the Bank of England, also including a number of less well-known bodies such as the Office for Budget Responsibility. There is also coverage of the international context in which these institutions operate especially the European Union and the World Trade Organisation. It thus provides an account of the public law applying to economic management in the UK. This book also adopts a critical approach, assessing the degree to which there is coherence in the arrangements for economic management, the degree to which economic policy-making is constrained by constitutional norms, and the degree to which economic management is subject to deliberation and accountability through Parliament, the courts and other institutions.
Author: Richard B. McKenzie
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on papers from a conference sponsored by the Heritage Foundation."A Heritage Foundation book"--Jacket. Includes bibliographical references.
Author: Robin W. Boadway
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Geoffrey Brennan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-08-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521070904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Societies function on the basis of rules. These rules, rather like the rules of the road, coordinate the activities of individuals who have a variety of goals and purposes. Whether the rules work well or ill, and how they can be made to work better, is a matter of major concern. Appropriately interpreted, the working of social rules is also the central subject matter of modern political economy. This book is about rules - what they are, how they work, and how they can be properly analysed. The authors' objective is to understand the workings of alternative political institutions so that choices among such institutions (rules) can be more fully informed. Thus, broadly defined, the methodology of constitutional political economy is the subject matter of The Reason of Rules. The authors have examined how rules for political order work, how such rules might be chosen, and how normative criteria for such choices might be established.
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 676
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Torsten Persson
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2005-01-14
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780262661928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors of The Economic Effects of Constitutions use econometric tools to study what they call the "missing link" between constitutional systems and economic policy; the book is an uncompromisingly empirical sequel to their previous theoretical analysis of economic policy. Taking recent theoretical work as a point of departure, they ask which theoretical findings are supported and which are contradicted by the facts. The results are based on comparisons of political institutions across countries or time, in a large sample of contemporary democracies. They find that presidential/parliamentary and majoritarian/proportional dichotomies influence several economic variables: presidential regimes induce smaller public sectors, and proportional elections lead to greater and less targeted government spending and larger budget deficits. Moreover, the details of the electoral system (such as district magnitude and ballot structure) influence corruption and structural policies toward economic growth.Persson and Tabellini's goal is to draw conclusions about the causal effects of constitutions on policy outcomes. But since constitutions are not randomly assigned to countries, how the constitutional system was selected in the first place must be taken into account. This raises challenging methodological problems, which are addressed in the book. The study is therefore important not only in its findings but also in establishing a methodology for empirical analysis in the field of comparative politics.