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- Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00
This book develops new theory about the link between debt and democracy and applies it to a classic historical comparison: Great Britain in the eighteenth century which had strong representative institutions and sound public finance vs. ancient regime France, which had neither. more...
- Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 32.00
This book attempts to answer three questions. Do politicians influence monetary policy via Fed appointments? Who influences the process - the President alone or both the President and the Senate? What explains the structure of the Fed appointment process? more...
- Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 26.00
This book investigates the sources and the limits of judicial authority in constitutional courts, focusing on the central role of public support for judicial independence. The book provides an in-depth study of the German Federal Constitutional Court, including statistical analysis of judicial decisions, case studies, and interviews. more...
- Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 26.00
This book explores the breakdown of the institutions that govern natural resource exports in developing states, using case studies of timber booms in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. These institutions often succumb to 'rent-seizing' - the predatory behavior of politicians who seek to supply rent to others. more...
- Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 34.00
This book addresses the apparent discrepancy between the developing economy of England between 1720-1844, and the stagnant legal framework of business organization during the same period. The book specifically focuses on the ways by which the legal-economic nexus of the period gave rise to the modern institutions of organizing business. more...
- Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 29.00
Combining sophisticated game theory with unprecedented data, this book analyzes how divided party presidents use threats and vetoes to wrest policy concessions from a hostile Congress. Case studies of the most important vetoes in recent history add texture to the analysis, detailing how President Clinton altered the course of Newt Gingrich's Republican... more...
- Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 35.00
This is a study of institutional failure in Russia's first democratic legislature. Inadequate rules and a chaotic party system made it nearly impossible for the legislature to pass a new constitution. This is the first book on this form of chaos (cycling). more...
- Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 22.00
It focuses on the role of miscommunication in the financial crises of developing nations. By examining the determinants of Asia's financial crisis of 1997-98, it demonstrates why developing democracies are vulnerable to breakdowns in communication and outlines the disastrous consequences of such breakdowns. more...
- Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 30.00
This analysis builds on earlier theoretical work by Mancur Olson, William Riker and Douglass North. Professor Schofield emphasizes that under some conditions architects of political change can put a new perspective on societal quandaries, such that societies can choose an option that has a better 'probability of a fit choice'. more...