Constitutional mythologies : new perspectives on controlling the state /
Our societies obviously rest on common beliefs. These "myths" are tools that help us to develop and build common identities; they form the structure around which societies function. This does not imply that these beliefs are "true," in the sense that they would be supported by em...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
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[2011]
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| Series: | Studies in public choice.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : constitutiohnal myths / Alain Marciano
- Consent or coercion? : A critical analysis of the constitutional contract / Randall G. Holcombe
- Agent type, social contracts, and constitutional mythologies / Peter Boettke and Alesander Fink
- Constitutions, politics, and identity / Alan Hamlin
- Is the "veil of ignorance" in constitutional choice a myth? An empirical exploration informed by a theory of power / Louis M. Imbeau and Steve Jacob
- Checks and balances at the OK corral : restraining Leviathan / Atin Basuchoudhary, Michael Reksulak, amd William F. Shughart II
- Popular sovereignty : a case study from the antebellum era / Elizabeth Dale
- Direct democracy and the constitution / Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer, and Susanne Neckerman
- Parallelisms and paralogisms in the European Court of Justice / Giuseppe Eusepi, Alessandra Cepparulo, and Maurizio Intartaglia
- The dual rationale of judicial independence / Fabien Gélinas
- Comparison of central bank and judicial independence / George Tridimas
- Making and implementing the rules of the game : the political economy of constitutional myths and rites / Jean-Michael Josselin.