Greed, chaos, and governance : using public choice to improve public law /

Public choice theory should be taken seriously - but not too seriously. In this thought-provoking book, Jerry Mashaw stakes out a middle ground between those who champion public choice theory (the application of the conventional methodology of economics to political science matters, also known as ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mashaw, Jerry L. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press ©1997.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt32br16
Table of Contents:
  • The challenge of positive political theory
  • The quest for usable knowledge
  • Public choice and rationality review
  • Legislatures, deals, and statutory interpretation
  • Explaining administrative process
  • Should administrators make political decisions?
  • Legal control of administrative policymaking : the "judicial review game"
  • Separated powers and regulatory policymaking
  • Public choice pragmatics.