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Introduction To Econometrics, 4/e

Politics & Social Sciences

DOUGHERTY

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

The Calculus of Consent and Constitutional Design (Studies in Public Choice, 20)

Buchanan and Tullock’s seminal work, The Calculus of Consent, linked economic methodology to substantive questions in political science. Among the major contributions of their book is a connection between constitutional decision making and contractarianism, a philosophical tradition that proponents believe can give institutions legitimacy. In other words, a major contribution of their book is a clear connection between empirical decision making and normative principles. The current book formalizes and extends their foundational ideas as it attempts to show how economic and philosophical arguments about the "best" voting rules can be used to improve constitutional design. It informs debates about constitutional political economy in comparative politics, democratic theory, and public choice. Political scientists often ask questions about what causes a nation to seek a new constitution, how constitutions are made, and what factors allow for corrupt decision making. The Calculus of Consent and Constitutional Design bridges the gap between normative questions about which institutions are most efficient and fair and empirical questions about how constitutions are formed. This provides a benchmark to help create better constitutions and informs empirical research about what institutions are most likely to succeed. 
The book begins by showing how contractarian ideals can be used to justify choices about decision-making. It then carefully defines several concepts employed by Buchanan and Tullock and shows why the relationships between these concepts may not be as closely linked as Buchanan and Tullock first thought. This provides a backdrop for analyzing the three phases of constitutional decision-making: 1) the constitutional phase, where rules for constitutional decision making must be justified; 2) the legislative phase, where the optimal k-majority rule is analyzed; and 3) the electoral phase, where the optimal voting rule for large electorates and open alternatives are determined. These phases differ by context and sources of legitimacy. Computational models and analytic techniques are introduced in each of these chapters. Finally, the book concludes with statements about the significance of the research for the creation of constitutions more broadly.

Philosophy

Springer

Chinese New Year: Festival of New Beginnings (First Facts Holidays and Culture)

Provides a description of what Chinese New Year is, how it started, and ways people celebrate this cultural holiday.

Chinese New Year: Festival of New Beginnings (First Facts; Holidays and Culture)

Children's Books

Terri

Holidays & Celebrations

Capstone Press

Ramadan: Islamic Holy Month (First Facts, Holidays and Culture)

Provides a description of the Islamic holiday of Ramadan, how it started, and ways people celebrate this cultural holiday.

Ramadan: Islamic Holy Month (First Facts: Holidays and Culture)

The belief that Native Americans might belong to the fabled “lost tribes of Israel”—Israelites driven from their homeland around 740 BCE—took hold among Anglo-Americans and Indigenous peoples in the United States during its first half century. In Lost Tribes Found, Matthew W. Dougherty explores what this idea can tell us about religious nationalism in early America.\nSome white Protestants, Mormons, American Jews, and Indigenous people constructed nationalist narratives around the then-popular idea of “Israelite Indians.” Although these were minority viewpoints, they reveal that the story of religion and nationalism in the early United States was more complicated and wide-ranging than studies of American “chosen-ness” or “manifest destiny” suggest. Telling stories about Israelite Indians, Dougherty argues, allowed members of specific communities to understand the expanding United States, to envision its transformation, and to propose competing forms of sovereignty. In these stories both settler and Indigenous intellectuals found biblical explanations for the American empire and its stark racial hierarchy.\nLost Tribes Found goes beyond the legal and political structure of the nineteenth-century U.S. empire. In showing how the trope of the Israelite Indian appealed to the emotions that bound together both nations and religious groups, the book adds a new dimension and complexity to our understanding of the history and underlying narratives of early America.

Lost Tribes Found

History

Americas

Six years in the making, Bow Valley Rock is the first comprehensive rock climbers' guide to the Bow Valley east of the Banff which has been in the forefront of rockclimbing development in the Canadian Rockies.

Bow Valley Rock. A Guide to Rock Climbs East of Banff.

Martin,John.

Sean Perry Chris

Rocky Mountain Books

Chemistry University of Texas at San Antonio

The Greatest Football Records (Edge Books: Sports Records)

Sports & Outdoors

An actor since the age of 7, Elijah Wood experienced both excitement and isolation as a serious young actor. Things changed when he played Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings," a role which brought him fame and friendship.

People in the News - Elijah Wood

Teen & Young Adult

Biographies

Lucent Books

Nonlinear Filters For Image Processing

Wiley-India

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