Political Process: New Perspectives on the Virginia and Bloomington Schools

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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing in Economy, Polity, and Society

Political Process: New Perspectives on the Virginia and Bloomington Schools explores political process as emphasized by the Virginia and Bloomington schools of political economy. Though the Virginia school of public choice and Bloomington school of institutional analysis have risen to prominence through the works of James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, and Elinor Ostrom; their joint emphasis on political process has been neglected. The chapters in this volume explore the idea of political process through a multi-disciplinary perspective and to better situate both schools in this discussion. Approximately half the chapters make theoretical contributions, proposing new frameworks for understanding how people come together to make collective decisions. The other half examine applied case studies through a process-oriented framework.

Contents

Introduction
Donald J. Boudreaux, Christopher J. Coyne, and Brian Kogelmann

Chapter 1: Politics Without Romance, Without Romance: The Meta-Problem for Virginia Political Economy
Jason Lee Byas 

Chapter 2: Co-production and the Use of Knowledge in Public Administration
Jordan J. Hunter 

Chapter 3: How Public Governance and Markets Became Learning Processes
Mariam Sedighi 

Chapter 4: Rule-Based Fiscal Governance: Challenges, Alternatives, and a Path for Reform
Andrew Berryhill 

Chapter 5: “Human Wisdom”: What Plato Can Teach Us About Technocracy
Eryn Rozonoyer 

Chapter 6: James M. Buchanan and the Unromantic Rhetoric of Public Choice
Alexander W. Morales

Chapter 7: Aura and the Aesthetics of Constitutional Creation: Knowledge and Representation in the Drafting of the Constitution of the Empire of Japan
Todd Maslyk 

Chapter 8: Masquerading Democracies: What Protest Actions Can Inform Us About the True State of the Regime?
Sargis Karavardanyan 

Chapter 9: Re-examining Commerce’s Impact on Peace and Conflicts
Paa-Kwesi Heto 

Chapter 10: Transaction Costs and Authoritarian Institutions: Early Coalition Size and Regime Party-Building
Curtis Bram 

Chapter 11: Disaster Recovery, Entrepreneurship, and the American Revolution: Women in the Foundations of American Political Economy
Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug