Rights and Wrongs

Dennis C. Mueller
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Dennis C. Mueller: University of Vienna

Chapter 1 in Public Economics and Public Choice, 2007, pp 1-18 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Among the many interests of Beat Blankart is Constitutional Political Economy. A few years ago we published an article setting out possible constitutional reforms that would improve the workings of the democratic process in Germany and perhaps other countries (Blankart and Mueller, 2002). This was followed up by a conference on the draft constitution for the European Union (Blankart and Mueller, 2004). My contribution to the conference was an essay critiquing the list of rights included in the draft constitution. My contribution to this Festschrift honoring Beat returns to the theme of constitutional rights. After first sketching the logic underlying the justification for delineating rights in a constitution, I illustrate some of their properties by discussing recent examples of the use and misuse of the rights concept.

Keywords: Vote Rule; Liberal Democracy; Collective Decision; Free Speech; Unanimity Rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72782-8_1

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