The Calculus of Consent and Constitutional Design

• Main Authors: Dougherty, Keith L. (Author), Edward, Julian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Public Choice, 20
• Subjects: Political science.; Political philosophy.; Social sciences.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Political Philosophy.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

Buchanan and Tullock’s seminal work, The Calculus of Consent, linked economic methodology to substantive questions in political science. Among the major contributions of their book is a connection between constitutional decision making and contractarianism, a philosophical tradition that proponents...