Decision costs, government strength, and political-economic outcomes in industrial democracies, 1960-1990 /

This dissertation examines the trade-offs inherent in democratic institutional design. I argue that more exclusive or strong institutional settings (such as those with single-party, unitary government) reduce decision making costs and rent-seeking, but as a consequence have higher costs of exclusio...

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Main Author:	Bohrer, Robert E.
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1997.
Subjects:	Major political science.
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