Modern Political Economy
By: Norman Frohlich, Joe A. Oppenheimer.
Contributors: Oppenheimer, Joe A., joint author.
Series: Foundations of Modern Political Science
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780135971208
Copyright date: 1978
Subjects: Political science.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: PREFACE
pagenum: xi; title: PART ONE: PREMISES FOR A MODERN THEORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
pagenum: 1; title: Theory: A Tool for Political Inquiry and Political Practice; title: Human Nature and Politics: Political Choice; title: The Structure of Preferences; title: Rationality: The Result of our Restrictions; title: For Further Reading; label: 1
title: GROUP CHOICE
pagenum: 15; title: Relating Individual Preferences To Social Choices; title: An Impossibility Theorem; title: Regarding Group Choice; title: Overview and Proof of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem; title: Group Choice Procedures Re-Examined; title: For Further Reading; label: 2
title: COLLECTIVE ACTION IN UNORGANIZED GROUPS
pagenum: 32; title: The Objectives of Political Action: Collective Goods; title: Individual Behavior and Optimality; title: Collective Behavior and Suboptimality; title: For Further Reading; label: 3
title: COLLECTIVE ACTION, MARGINAL COST SHARING, AND CONTINGENT PREFERENCES
pagenum: 49; title: Organizing for Marginal Cost Sharing: Establishing a Threshhold; title: Adding to the Rationality Assumption; title: Expected Value Maximization and Collective Action; title: Overcoming the Barrier to Participation: Supplying Excludable Incentives; title: For Further Reading; label: 4
title: POLITICAL ORGANIZING AND POLITICAL ENTREPRENEURS
pagenum: 66; title: Entrepreneurial Leaders; title: Entrepreneurial Behavior in Varying Contexts; title: Non-Self-Oriented Entrepreneurs: What Difference? The Ethics of Leadership; title: For Further Reading; title: PART TWO: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEMOCRACY
pagenum: 91; title: Democracy as a Set of Decision Rules; title: For Further Reading; label: 5
title: VOTING
pagenum: 97; title: The Rational Act of Voting; title: The Downsian Voter; title: Rational Ignorance; title: For Whom Is It Rational To Be More Informed? Forms of Contribution and Participation Other Than Voting; title: For Further Reading; label: 6
title: PARTY PLATFORMS IN A DEMOCRACY
pagenum: 117; title: Single Peaked Preferences With One Issue; title: Electoral Competition as "Spatial" Competition; title: Shortcomings of the Spatial Analogue; title: Distributional Issues; title: Vote Trading and Coalitions of Minorities; title: Some Normative Conclusions; title: For Further Reading; title: INDEX
pagenum: 747