Screen LibraryAdvances in political economy : institutions, modelling and empirical analysis /
This book presents latest research in the field of Political Economy, dealing with the integration of economics and politics and the way institutions affect social decisions. The focus is on innovative topics such as an institutional analysis based on case studies; the influence of activists on poli...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35239-3 |
| Summary: |
This book presents latest research in the field of Political Economy, dealing with the integration of economics and politics and the way institutions affect social decisions. The focus is on innovative topics such as an institutional analysis based on case studies; the influence of activists on political decisions; new techniques for analyzing elections, involving game theory and empirical methods. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: |
9783642352393 (electronic bk.) 3642352391 (electronic bk.) 9781299407596 (MyiLibrary) 1299407595 (MyiLibrary) |
| Index Number: | HB171 |
| CLC: | F0 |
| Contents: |
Institutions. Transaction Cost Politics in the Map of the New Institutionalism / Political Transitions in Ancient Greece and Medieval Italy: An Analytic Narrative / A Collective-Action Theory of Fiscal-Military State Building / Stable Constitutions in Political Transition / Quandaries of Gridlock and Leadership in US Electoral Politics / Sub-central Governments and Debt Crisis in Spain over the Period 2000-2011 / Deciding How to Choose the Healthcare System / Modelling. Challenges to the Standard Euclidean Spatial Model / A Non-existence Theorem for Clientelism in Spatial Models / Nonseparable Preferences and Issue Packaging in Elections / When Will Incumbents Avoid a Primary Challenge? Aggregation of Partial Information About Candidates' Valence / Measuring the Latent Quality of Precedent: Scoring Vertices in a Network / Empirical Analysis. The Politics of Austerity: Modeling British Attitudes Towards Public Spending Cuts / Modeling Elections with Varying Party Bundles: Applications to the 2004 Canadian Election / Spatial Model of Elections in Turkey: Tracing Changes in the Party System in the 2000s / Do Competitive Districts Necessarily Produce Centrist Politicians? / A Heteroscedastic Spatial Model of the Vote: A Model with Application to the United States / Inferring Ideological Ambiguity from Survey Data / |