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Economic Politics in the United States: The Costs and Risks of Democracy
William R. Keech
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Description for Economic Politics in the United States: The Costs and Risks of Democracy
paperback. The book shows how and why democracy has worked well or badly as measured by US macroeconomic performance. Num Pages: 300 pages, 8 b/w illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Employing macroeconomic performance as a lens to evaluate democratic institutions, the author uses models of political behavior that allow for opportunism on the part of public officials and shortsightedness on the part of voters to see if democratic institutions lead to inferior macroeconomic performance. We have learned more about how and why democracy can work well or badly in the years since the first edition was published. It was not previously apparent how much the good performance of democracy in the United States was contingent on informal rules and institutions of restraint that are not part of the definition of ... Read more
Employing macroeconomic performance as a lens to evaluate democratic institutions, the author uses models of political behavior that allow for opportunism on the part of public officials and shortsightedness on the part of voters to see if democratic institutions lead to inferior macroeconomic performance. We have learned more about how and why democracy can work well or badly in the years since the first edition was published. It was not previously apparent how much the good performance of democracy in the United States was contingent on informal rules and institutions of restraint that are not part of the definition of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521178679
SKU
V9780521178679
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About William R. Keech
William Keech is Research Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. Keech is the author of numerous books, including the first edition of Economic Politics in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and his articles have appeared in academic journals such as the American Political Science Review, Public Choice, and the American Economic ... Read more
Reviews for Economic Politics in the United States: The Costs and Risks of Democracy
'In this important new edition, Bill Keech, one of the first political scientists to apply macroeconomic tools and research to political questions, revisits his prior inquiry on the 'health' of economic politics. But, in doing so, he also extends his discussion to incorporate many new findings in macro political economy. These additional results enhance our understanding of how and how ... Read more