Randall G. Holcombe

Following Their Leaders (eBook, PDF)

Political Preferences and Public Policy

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009323147
• Artikelnr.: 70912490

Autorenporträt

Randall G. Holcombe is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. He served on Florida Governor Jeb Bush's Council of Economic Advisors from 2000 to 2006, and is past president of the Public Choice Society and the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Instrumental and Expressive Preferences
3. Influences Over Preference Formation
4. Preference Aggregation Through Voting
5. The Formation of Political Preferences
6. Anchor Preferences and Derivative Preferences
7. Preferences of Elites and Masses
8. Policies that Maximize Political Power
9. Patriotism, Propaganda, and the Public Interest
10. Implications for Democracy.