Gianluigi Galeotti, Ronald Wintrobe

The Economics of Transparency in Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Breton, Albert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The purpose of this book is to formulate and discuss positive (as distinguished from normative) rational choice models of the advantages and costs of transparency in various areas of public sector activity and to assess what is in effect the social level of obfuscation in politics that results from rational behaviour.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351890953
• Artikelnr.: 48419127

Autorenporträt

Albert Breton is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada. Much of his research has been and continues to be on the application of neo-classical economics to issues such as federalism and decentralization. Gianluigi Galeotti is Professor of Public Economics at the University of Rome (La Sapienza), Italy. He has worked on the economics of political behavior and now works on a neo-institutional approach to Law and Economics. Pierre Salmon is a member of the Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion, a research team of the Université de Bourgogne, France, where he is now professor emeritus. He formerly taught at the Universities of Rennes and Paris and at the European University Institute in Florence. Ronald Wintrobe is Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and co-director of the Political Economy Research Group. He has published many books and articles in professional journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Albert Breton
Gianluigi Galeotti
Pierre Salmon
and Ronald Wintrobe. Part 1 In Democratic Contexts: Acquiescence to opacity
Pierre Salmon and Alain Wolfelsperger; Citizens' Knowledge
Politicians' Duplicity
Russell Hardin; Transparency and efficiency
Albert Breton. Part 2 In International Settings: The Artist as a Secret Agent: Liberalism Against Populism
Manfred J. Holler; Jihad vs. McWorld: A Rational Choice Approach
Ronald Wintrobe. Part 3 Corruption: Invisible Feet and Grabbing Hands: the Political Economy of Corruption and Welfare
Johann Lambsdorff; Information
Corruption
and Measures for the Promotion of Manufactured Exports
Glenn P. Jenkins and Chun-Yan Kuo. Part 4 Government Behavior: Cases for and Against Transparency/Obfuscation in Intergovernmental Relations
Giorgio Brosio; Transparency in the Budget Process of a Bureaucratic Organization: A Principal-Agent Model of Budgeting
Louis M. Imbeau; Redistribution
Decentralization
and Constitutional Rules
Federico Etro and Piero Giarda. Index.