Architects of political change : constitutional quandaries and social choice theory
This analysis builds on earlier theoretical work by Mancur Olson, William Riker and Douglass North. Professor Schofield emphasizes that under some conditions architects of political change can put a new perspective on societal quandaries, such that societies can choose an option that has a better 'probability of a fit choice'
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Constitutional quandaries and social choice
Power and social choice
Franklin and the War of Independence
Madison, Jefferson, and Condorcet
Lincoln and the Civil War
Johnson and the critical realignment of 1964
Keynes and the Atlantic constitution
Preferences and beliefs
Political change
English
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