Constitutional quandaries in Europe

✍ Scribed by Dennis C. Mueller

• Book ID: 104628493
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 718 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1043-4062
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00119269

✦ Synopsis

Most of the constitutional political economy literature has followed Buchanan and Tullock by remaining inherently normative, but a small literature has appeared that examines the properties of constitutions by considering the motives of the people who actually write the constitution. This literature is in the positive public choice tradition, in that it assumes that the people who write a constitution are