[ 971ATECPC2K10 ] KS (*)Public Choice II
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| Workload |
Education level |
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Responsible person |
Hours per week |
Coordinating university |
| 4 ECTS |
M2 - Master's programme 2. year |
Economics |
Friedrich Schneider |
2 hpw |
Johannes Kepler University Linz |
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| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Master's programme Economics 2010W |
| Objectives |
(*)Students will understand the concepts of state, voting rules, federalism, theory of clubs, rent seeking, bureaucracy, size of government
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(*)Origins of the State
- The reasons for collective choice – allocative efficiency
- The reason for collective choice – redistribution
Public choice in a direct democracy
- The Choice of the voting rule
- Majority rule – positive properties
- Majority rule – normative properties
- Simple alternatives to majority rule
- Complicated alternatives to majority rule
- Exit, voice and disloyalty
Public choice in a representative democracy
- Federalism
- Two-party competition – deterministic voting
- Two-party competition – probabilistic voting
- Multiparty systems
- The paradox of voting
- Rent seeking
- Bureaucracy
- Legislatures and bureaucracies
- Dictatorship
Size of government
- Facts
- Explanations for the size of government
- Interest groups and the growth of government
- Bureaucracy and the growth of government
- Government size and economic performance
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| Changing subject? |
No |
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| On-site course |
| Maximum number of participants |
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| Assignment procedure |
Assignment according to priority |
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