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Rules, Choice and Strategy
This topical book analyses the change of electoral rules in Italy from proportional representation toward plurality. While Italy is used as the illustrative case, the analysis has far-ranging theoretical and practical implications, and will therefore be of interest to academics and researchers of political economy, constitutionalism and public choice.
Rules and Reason
This volume explores shifting conceptions of constitutional political economy and suggests possible future strategies for change.
Changing the Rules
From the wide range of voting schemes, two electoral rules, proportional representation (PR) and plurality (PL) attract primary interest. This paper examines the relationship between proportionality, voter information and a conception of the power of competing political parties under the differing electoral rules. Data are from three Sicilian provincial elections (1985, 1990 and 1994). Two measures of power and two measures of proportionality are used and Olson's theory of groups is applied to derive a measure of voter information. The results indicate that proportionality and voter information have a negative effect on political party power dilution under PR rules. However, these effects disappear under PL rules. We offer some interpretations of these findings.
Economic Welfare, International Business and Global Institutional Change
The distinguished authors in this volume address the fundamental causes for such heterogeneous international experiences, placing particular emphasis on the role of institutions. They demonstrate how the study of economic development is increasingly linked to the development of institutions, which allow for more complex exchanges to occur in markets and societies. Institutions can be understood as rules or constraints that channel individuals' actions in specific directions, and can be formal or informal depending on their genesis. The book highlights the connection between institutions and economic welfare by examining countries at different stages of development. Although the authors' stud...
Living in the Jungle Or Together and in Peace?
The existing literature on conflicts extensively argues that countries may find a peaceful settlement, in which they renounce fighting. In this paper we try to formalize a model, in which countries focus on a different and more attractive solution for their disputes. More specifically, we the case in which they merge, creating a new entity, instead of simply renouncing fighting. We stress the welfare implications of this choice, as well as the fact that the merging process is not necessarily unchangeable, but it can collapse depending on the parameters of the model. Beyond the literature on conflicts, this paper can also be linked to the one on countries secession/unification.
This Obscure Thing Called Transparency
The paradoxical logic of transparency and mediation Transparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media – it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually stand for and what are the consequences for the life of individuals? Can knowledge from the arts, and its play of visibility and invisibility, tell us something about the paradoxical logics of transparency and mediation? This Obscure Thing Called Transparency gathers contributions by international experts who critically assess the promises and perils of transparency today.
Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Volume 36, (2018)
Volume 36 of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs publishes scholarly articles and essays on international and transnational law, as well as compiles official documents on the state practice of the Republic of China (ROC) in 2018.
