BOOK REVIEW: Mbaku, John Mukum. BUREAUCRATIC AND POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN AFRICA: THE PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVE. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing, 2000.

Africa Today ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 146-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kisangani F. Emizet
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Political Corruption ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Choice Perspective

Voting at the U.S. Constitutional Convention

2019 ◽  
pp. 780-796
Author(s):  
Keith L. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Choice Perspective ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

This chapter describes how the public-choice perspective has provided new insights into the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787. It reviews articles on the impact of the rules of the Convention, attempts to infer delegate votes, and reviews how public choice has helped us understand the adoption of various clauses in the Constitution and studies of the Beard thesis.

Federalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-93
Author(s):  
Jaroslaw Kantorowicz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Explanatory Variable ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current State ◽  
Public Choice Perspective

Federalism is a governance structure that enables the aggregation of mass areas under one government. Federalism is a more complex form of governance than a unitary system. Under a federal structure of government, the activities are constitutionally divided (or shared) between constituent governments and a central government, implying a permanent coexistence and bargaining between participating governments and the center or among participating governments themselves. This chapter delineates the current state of knowledge regarding federalism and its twin concept of decentralization from the public-choice perspective. First, the chapter looks at federalism as an explanatory variable by examining how it shapes various outcomes ranging from economic growth to incidence of terrorism. Second, it deals with endogenous federalism and thus factors that explain how it emerges, survives, and changes. In the last part, the chapter summarizes several potential avenues for future research on federalism.

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