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The Calculus of Consent and Constitutional Design

Part of the Studies in Public Choice Book Series (volume 20)

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-98171-0

ISBN: 978-0-387-98170-3

Publisher: Springer New York - Springer Journals

Feb 23, 2011

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Chapter 1Introduction

Dougherty, Keith L.; Edward, Julian

Pages: 1 –7

[A wave of economic and political liberalization is sweeping the world. Many countries in Latin America and Eastern Europe have made transitions from semi-closed to open societies and from authoritarian governments to liberal democracies. In several of these cases, the transition has been...
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Chapter 2Original Theories and Current Studies

Dougherty, Keith L.; Edward, Julian

Pages: 9 –19

[When the first author was a graduate student, some of his professors would argue about the five most influential works in formal political theory. Their lists included classics that affected a wide audience, not just works that were technically advanced. Kenneth Arrow’s Social Choice and...
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Chapter 3Clarifying Concepts

Dougherty, Keith L.; Edward, Julian

Pages: 21 –31

[Unanimity rule and the Pareto criterion appear so alike that several authors have treated them as almost interchangeable. Arrow (1951) described the Pareto principle as a unanimity principle. Fishburn (1973) refers to the Pareto criterion as strong unanimity. And Buchanan (1967, 285) described...
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Chapter 4Constitutional Decision Making

Dougherty, Keith L.; Edward, Julian

Pages: 33 –56

[K-majority rules, such as majority rule, supermajority rules, and unanimity rule, have been used in legislative settings. The British House of Commons and the U.S. House of Representatives use simple majority rule for ordinary decisions; the U.S. Senate requires approval of 3/5ths of its members...
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Chapter 5Legislative Decision Making

Dougherty, Keith L.; Edward, Julian

Pages: 57 –72

[How many individuals must agree before a collective decision is imposed on a community? Buchanan and Tullock (1962) raised that question roughly fifty years ago and answered that it depends on how a community weighs decision costs and external costs. At the constitutional stage decision costs...
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Chapter 6Electoral Decision Making

Dougherty, Keith L.; Edward, Julian

Pages: 73 –95

[Everyone remembers the 2000 U.S. presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Bush won more Electoral College votes than Gore, and with it the presidency. Nevertheless, Gore won more popular votes than Bush. Many argued that Gore should have been elected the president because he won...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Dougherty, Keith L.; Edward, Julian

Pages: 97 –113

[Roughly a half-century has passed since The Calculus of Consent was first published. Yet the questions raised by Buchanan and Tullock’s pioneering book seem to be more relevant today than they were in 1962. The spread of democracy, advances in technology, and population growth have increased the...

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