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Public Choice And Constitutional Design, Tom Ginsburg
Public Choice And Constitutional Design, Tom Ginsburg
Tom Ginsburg
This chapter reviews the literature on public choice theory and constitutional design, focusing in particular on the sub-discipline of constitutional political economy. The basic framework of constitutional political economy has been in place for several decades and has produced some important insights into particular institutions. Other institutions, however, have been ignored, and there is a relatively small amount of empirical work testing the propositions. The chapter summarizes the work to date and identifies areas for more attention in the future. The chapter first reviews the core assumption that constitutional politics are really different than ordinary politics, and the corollary that …
Subconstitutionalism, Tom Ginsburg, Eric A. Posner