• 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