Law and the State

Edited by Alain Marciano and Jean-Michel Josselin

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Abstract: Law and the State provides a political economy analysis of the legal functioning of a democratic state, illustrating how it builds on informational and legal constraints. It explains, in an organised and thematic fashion, how competitive information enhances democracy while strategic information endangers it, and discusses how legal constraints stress the dilemma of independence versus discretion for judges as well as the elusive role of administrators and experts.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
ISBN: 9781843768005
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction Making sense of the state: a political economy approach

Jean-Michel Josselin and Alain Marciano

Ch 2 Schumpeterian political economy and Downsian public choice: alternative economic theories of democracy

Michael Wohlgemuth

Ch 3 The effects of cyberspace on the economic theory of the state

Eli M. Salzberger and Niva Elkin-Koren

Ch 4 Explaining the great divergence: medium and message on the Eurasian land mass, 1700 - 1850

Leonard Dudley

Ch 5 George Orwell and his cold wars: truth and politics

Manfred J. Holler

Ch 6 Measuring terrorism

Bruno Frey and Simon Luechinger

Ch 7 Rule of law, finance and economic development: cross-country evidence

Stefan van Hemmen and Frank H. Stephen

Ch 8 Judicial independence as a necessary component of the rule of law: preliminary insights and economic consequences

Stefan Voigt

Ch 9 Democracy, citizens and judicial power: do judges contribute to democracy?

Sophie Harnay

Ch 10 Law, justice and republic: the French republican model of judicial regulation

Christian Barrère

Ch 11 Should non-expert courts control expert administrations?

Georg von Wangenheim

Ch 12 Pelle sub agnina latitat mens saepe lupina: copyright in the marketplace

Giovanni Ramello

Ch 13 Competition in banking: switching costs and the limits of antitrust enforcement

Donatella Porrini and Giovanni Ramello

Ch 14 Old Master paintings: price formation and public policy implications

Paolo Figini and Laura Onofri

Ch 15 Living it off or living it down: the economics of disinvestments

Jürgen Backhaus

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