TY - BOOK AU - Congleton,Roger D. AU - Swedenborg,Birgitta ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Democratic constitutional design and public policy: analysis and evidence AV - JF51 .D46 2006 U1 - 320.6 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Comparative government KW - Congresses KW - Political science KW - Decision making KW - Rational choice theory KW - Political planning KW - Policy sciences KW - Economic policy KW - Constitutional law KW - Electronic books N1 - Papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for Business and Policy Studies; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Rational choice politics and institutions / Roger D. Congleton and Birgitta Swedenborg -- Direct democracy : designing a living constitution / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Constitutions and economic policy / Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini -- Party-line voting and committee assignments in the mixed-member system / Thomas Stratmann -- The effects of constitutions on coalition governments in parliamentary democracies / Daniel Diermeier, Hulya Eraslan, and Antonio Merlo -- On the merits of bicameral legislatures : intragovernmental bargaining and policy stability / Roger D. Congleton -- Bicameralism and political compromise in representative democracy / John Charles Bradbury and W. Mark Crain -- Federalism : a constitutional perspective / Dennis C. Mueller -- Common tax pool problems in federal systems / Brian Knight -- Judicial independence and economic development / Lars P. Feld and Stefan Voigt -- Constitutions and prosperity : the impact of legal and economic institutions on the wealth of nations / Randall G. Holcombe, Robert A. Lawson, and James D. Gwartney -- Amendment procedures and constitutional stability / Bjrn Erik Rasch and Roger D. Congleton -- Designing constitutional stability / Barry R. Weingast; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3338569 ER -