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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Marciano, Alain
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [2011]
Series:Studies in public choice.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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 GĂ©linas
  • 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.