Advanced introduction to public choice:
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Preface xi
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Public choice and public policy 3
Individual choice in markets versus collective choice in
government 3
Economic analysis and public choice 4
Individual interests and the public interest 6
Three areas of inquiry 7
PART II AGGREGATING VOTER PREFERENCES
2 The politics of left and right 13
The distribution of political preferences 13
Electoral competition 14
Extreme candidates cannot win 17
Primaries and general elections 18
Third parties are not viable 20
Other factors 22
Aggregating voter preferences 22
3 Institutions: proportional versus plurality; parliamentary
versus presidential 24
Constitutional constraints 24
Proportional versus plurality voting 25
Proportional voting and party tickets 27
Parliamentary versus presidential governments 28
Other institutional differences 29
Conclusion 30
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viii ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC CHOICE
4 Political strategy: turnout and the distribution of
preferences 32
Voter turnout 32
Voter polarization 33
Changing minds, or motivating turnout? 34
Designing a successful platform 35
Elections: good alternative to violence 38
Conclusion 38
5 Multidimensional issue space 40
What can prevent the issue space from collapsing to a single
dimension? 40
A cyclical majority 41
Single-peaked preferences 42
Institutions and stability 44
Instability in multidimensional issue space 45
Why are political outcomes stable? 47
Conclusion 48
6 Why do people vote? Rational ignorance, expressive
voting, rational irrationality 50
Your vote will not affect the election outcome 51
Rational ignorance 52
Expressive voting 5 3
Rational irrationality 56
The charity of the uncharitable 57
Conclusion 58
PART III DESIGNING PUBLIC POLICY
7 Transaction costs and political exchange 63
The Coase theorem 64
Large numbers create high transaction costs 67
Secret ballots and transaction costs 68
Membership in the low-transaction cost group 69
The Coase theorem and the public interest 70
8 Political markets: interest groups, rent-seeking, and
regulatory capture 73
The legislative marketplace 73
Interest group size and effectiveness 75
Who represents the public interest? 77
CONTENTS ix
Rent-seeking 78
Regulatory capture 81
Conclusion 83
9 Bureaucracy 85
The budget maximization hypothesis 85
The bureau and its sponsor 87
Bureaucrats and the bargaining process 89
Bureaucratic efficiency 90
Conclusion 92
10 Political organization: districts, committees, and
institutional design 94
Single-member districts and political competition 94
Two dimensions of political competition 96
The committee system 98
Seniority 100
Federalism 102
Conclusion 104
11 Political entrepreneurship 106
The political marketplace 107
Factors leading toward efficiency 109
Two types of entrepreneurial opportunities 110
Distributive policies and political entrepreneurship 111
Entrepreneurial bureaucrats 113
Will political entrepreneurship create instability? 114
Conclusion 117
PART IV CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN
12 Constitutional and post-constitutional decision-making 121
Politics as exchange: the unanimity criterion 122
Optimal decision-making rules 12.3
Optimal rules, more generally 124
Evaluating constitutional rules 125
Some criticisms 126
Are all political decisions post-constitutional? 127
The constitutional challenge 128
13 Interest groups and constitutional evolution 130
Government as a stationary bandit 131
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ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC CHOICE
Interest group activity over time 133
Enforcing constitutional constraints 134
Conclusion 136
14 Checks and balances: elites and masses 138
Government growth 139
Elites versus masses 141
Conclusion 142
Index 145
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