Leadership or Chaos The Heart and Soul of Politics /

• Main Authors: Schofield, Norman (Author), Gallego, Maria (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Political science.; Economic theory.; Public finance.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Public Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

Combining elements of economic reasoning and political science has proven to be very useful for understanding the broad variation in economic development around the world. In a sense research in this field goes back to the Scottish Enlightenment and Adam Smith’s original plan in his Theory of Moral...

Table of Contents:

• Political Economy: Risk and Uncertainty
• Limited Access Society
• Social Choice
• Models of the World and Society
• Elections in the United States
• Elections in the United Kingdom
• Elections in Canada, the Netherlands and Belgium
• Elections in Poland 1997-2005
• Elections in Russia and the Caucasus
• Elections in Israel and Turkey
• Institutions and Development
• Chaotic Leadership Transitions
• Concluding Remarks on Knowledge of Science and Society.