LEADER 03107nam 22004333u 450 001 9910454247703321 005 20210107035006.0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000688689 035 $a(EBL)318675 035 $a(OCoLC)476114041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC318675 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000688689 100 $a20130418d2007|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 14$aThe Federalist Papers and the New Institutionalism$b[electronic resource] 210 $aNew York $cAlgora Publishing$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87586-085-0 327 $aCONTENTS; List of Tables and Figures; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Preface; The Federalist Papers and the New Institutionalism: An Overview; Part I. The Madisonian Vision and the Theory of Public Choice: Comparisons and Contrasts; Introduction; 1. Madison's Theory of Representation; 2. Publius and Public Choice; 3. Electoral Institutions in The Federalist Papers: A Contemporary Perspective; 4. Restraining the Whims and Passions of the Public; Part II. Optimal Institutions; Introduction 327 $a5. The Constitution as an Optimal Social Contract: A Transaction Cost Analysis of The Federalist Papers6. Stability and Efficiency in a Separation-of-Powers Constitutional System; 7. Why A Constitution?; Part III. Power: Checks and Balances; Introduction; 8. Are the Two Houses of Congress Really Coequal?; 9. Assessing the Power of the Supreme Court; 10. Checks, Balances, and Bureaucratic Usurpation of Congressional Power; 11. The Distribution of Power in the Federal Government: Perspectives from The Federalist Papers - A Critique; Part IV. The Ratification Debate; Introduction 327 $a12. Public Choice Analysis and the Ratification of the Constitution13. Constitutional Conflict in State and Nation; 14. The Strategy of Ratification; References; Index 330 $aThe Madisonian approach to institutional design, as set forth in The Federalist Papers, is examined from the point of view of leading theorists of the ""public choice"" school who see themselves as the political heirs of that earlier legacy.Bernard Grofman taught a course on representation in which the readings included both the Federalist Papers and Buchanan and Tullock s Calculus of Consent. In teaching that course (and, as he writes, forcing himself to reread the Federalist carefully for the first time since his own graduate student days), his admiration for its authors, already high, grew 606 $aRepresentative government and representation 606 $aSocial choice 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aRepresentative government and representation. 615 4$aSocial choice. 676 $a328.730734 676 $a328.73'0734-dc19 700 $aGrofman$b Bernard$0145487 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454247703321 996 $aThe Federalist Papers and the New Institutionalism$92227838 997 $aUNINA