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Political Participation and Government Regulation
Sam Peltzman
出版University of Chicago Press, 1998-11-15
主題Law / Commercial / GeneralPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Civil RightsPolitical Science / Political Process / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
ISBN02266541769780226654171
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Nri64XlAYxcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Sam Peltzman is one of the world's leading economists, and the essays in this collection are central to the modern canon in political economy. These ten articles and an original introduction respond to two broad questions: How does government work? How do voters and their elected representatives make decisions? Given the media's portrayal of the cynical political atmosphere in America, Peltzman's responses are rather surprising—the electorate really does make well-informed decisions and elected officials actually do tend to vote according to their constituents' interests. These conclusions bear the stamp of the Chicago approach to political economy (which applies microeconomic principles to political phenomena), an approach that has had considerable success explaining why certain government policies have not achieved their intended effects.

This collection reflects Peltzman's long career studying the interface between the private economy and the public sector. It will be essential to anyone who wishes to study government activity and voting behavior from an economic perspective.