Tables of Contents for Public Choice III

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1. Introduction

Part I. Origins of the State: 2. The reason for collective choice - allocative efficiency

3. The reason for collective choice - redistribution

Part II. Public Choice in a Direct Democracy: 4. The choice of voting rule

5. Majority rule - positive properties

6. Majority rule - normative properties

7. Simple alternatives to majority rule

8. Complicated alternatives to majority rule

9. Exit, voice, and disloyalty

Part III. Public Choice in a Representative Democracy: 10. Federalism

11. Two-party competition - deterministic voting

12. Two-party competition - probabilistic voting

13. Multiparty systems

14. The paradox of voting

15. Rent seeking

16. Bureaucracy

17. Legislatures and bureaucracies

18. Dictatorship

Part IV. Applications and Testing: 19. Political competition and macroeconomic performance

20. Interest groups, campaign contributions, and lobbying

21. The size of government

22. Government size and economic performance

Part V. Normative public choice: 23. Social welfare functions

24. The impossibility of a social ordering

25. A just social contract

26. The constitution as a utilitarian contract

27. Liberal rights and social choices

Part VI. What Have We Learned?: 28. Has public choice contributed anything to the study of politics?

29. Allocation, redistribution, and public choice.