Public choice and public policy: The vulnerability of economic advice to the interpretation of politicians

Public Finance and Public Choice principles are used to analyze the ideological and practical basis for the proposed introduction of a Capital Gains Tax into the income tax system of South Africa. The paper concludes that this is a flawed tax whose time has passed - especially for countries like South Africa.

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The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, Volume 2

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190469771.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Monetary Policy ◽

Public Choice ◽

Constitutional Political Economy ◽

Comprehensive Overview ◽

The Public ◽

Measurement Issues ◽

The Core ◽

Methodological Approaches ◽

Choice Literature

The two-volume Oxford Handbook of Public Choice provides a comprehensive overview of the public-choice literature. Volume 2 covers constitutional political economy and applications of public-choice models to various policy areas. Part V has chapters on the architecture of governance, the theory of dictatorship, and the effects of the institutions of governance. Part VI discusses the politics of public policy, international public choice, public choice and history, and measurement issues. The volume touches on topics such as taxation, redistribution, federalism, and monetary policy. It ends with discussions of various methodological approaches, including extensions of the core models to account for altruism and trust, and overviews of measurement and estimation issues, and the use of experiments in public-choice research. The chapters were all written for this handbook by scholars well known for their contributions to the areas covered.

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Public Choice, Public Finance and Public Policy: Essays in Honour of Alan Peacock.

Economica ◽

10.2307/2554403 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 54 (214) ◽

pp. 263

Author(s):

Cedric Sandford ◽

D. Greenway ◽

G. K. Shaw

Keyword(s):

Public Finance ◽

Public Policy ◽

Public Choice

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Public Choice + Public Decision Making + Public Policy Making + Public Problem Solving + Public Organization = Public Administration

Public Administration Review ◽

10.2307/974265 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 31 (6) ◽

pp. 689

Author(s):

Ton van der Eyden

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Decision Making ◽

Problem Solving ◽

Public Choice ◽

Public Administration ◽

Policy Making ◽

Public Organization ◽

Public Policy Making ◽

Public Decision ◽

Public Decision Making

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ANALISIS PENERAPAN SISTEM PROPOSIONAL DAN SISTEM DISTRIK DALAM PEMILIHAN UMUM UNTUK PENYEDEDERHANAAN SISTEM KEPARTAIAN DI INDONESIA DITINJAU DARI ASAS NEGARA HUKUM

Yustisia Jurnal Hukum ◽

10.20961/yustisia.v1i2.10628 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Aminah

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Public Choice ◽

Political Party ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

The Political ◽

Ideal Model ◽

Legal Policy ◽

District Magnitude ◽

The Law ◽

The Ideal

AbstractThis research aim to get the information on this materials, effort to descript the relation between each another. The study belongs to a normative law research using qualitative approach that is descriptive in nature. Some approaches used to analyse the issue is legislation, historical, and conseptual approaches. To solve the law issue and give prescription about the proper primary and secondary law materials that should be applied as investigating material with the technique of collecting the law materials study documents or literary reviews both printed and electronic (internet) sources are used. The choice for the election sistem is the legislation area, not a constitutionally norms. Its depend the legal politics, and there is not the reason when the pluralism sistem is more preference more than the district sistem. It related with the parliamentary recruitment, and the pluralism can more get the chance for the political party to fine their representative in the House. In order to get the ideal model in relation between party and the election sistem needs the consistence of the legal policy for formulating as public choice.Keywords: election, party, and public policy.Abstrak Penelitian ini bertjuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara sistem pemilihan umum dengan sistem keparataian ditinjau dari asas negara hukum dan pilihan terhadap penetapan sistem pemilihan guna mencapai kebijakan penyederhanaan sistem kepartaian. Penelitian ini termasuk penelitian hukum normatif atau doktrinal dengan metode kualitatif. Sumber data penelitian bahan hukum primer dengan pendekatan perundang-undangan, historis, dan konsep. Analisis data bersifat kualitatif melalui proses reduksi dan penafsiran data serta penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ditinjau dari asas negara hukum keterkaitan sistem pemilu dengan sistem kepartaian dapat diteropong dalam hubungan antara tiga elemen yaitu fungsi, sistem perwakilan dan legalisasi pemilu.Sebelum perubahan UUD 1945 dan sesudah perubahan UUD 1945 ada perubahan pelembagaan pemilu akan tetapi dalam tataran legislasi pemilihan sistem senantiasa tertuju kepada sistem proporsional dengan beraneka macam variasi dan perbedaan elemen-elemen teknis yang terkandung di dalamnya. Sistem proporsional dapat dilanjutkan sebagai kebijakan penetapan sistem pemilu yang cocok untuk Indonesia dengan enam catatan: (i) pengukuhan otonomi daerah dan peningkatan partisipasi lewat ketidakserentaan penyelenggaraan pemilu, (ii) pendisiplinan anggota DPR dan DPRD propinsi dan kota/kabupaten, (iii) restrukturisasi organisasi kepartaian, (iv) penciutan district magnitude, (v) konsistensi penerapan ambang (threshold), dan (vi) demokratisasi partai politik dalam tahap pencalonan. Implikasi dari penelitian adalah ada hubungan yang saling berpengaruh antara sistem pemilihan umum dan sistem kepartaian yang harus diperhatikan dalam kerangka penetapan sistem pemilihan umum. Sementara itu realitas praktis yang menunjukkan konsistensi penetapan sistem pemilihan umum proporsional harus diikuti dengan syarat-syarat tertentu agar dapat menjadi sistem penyederhanaan partai politik.

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Public Choice Theory. A Textbook. Chapter 10. Political Economy and Public Policy. Administrative Resource

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2003-5-136-157 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 136-157

Author(s):

R. Nureev

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Political Economy ◽

Public Sector ◽

Public Choice ◽

Choice Theory ◽

Public Choice Theory ◽

State Expenditures

The problems of public sector swelling known as "the Leviathan's menace" are considered in the tenth chapter of the textbook. The size of state expenditures and the limits of public sector are analyzed. The concept of administrative resource is defined and the methods of its estimation are offered. The chapter also includes further readings, control tests and questions.

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Conflicting Rights to Rural Resources: A Research Strategy for Improved Public Choice

Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council ◽

10.1017/s016354840000217x ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 63-66 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lawrence W. Libby

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Public Choice ◽

Economic Change ◽

Research Strategy ◽

Diagnostic Analysis ◽

Policy Options ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Economic Advice ◽

Policy Analysts ◽

Better Than

There are two basic underlying premises for this paper. The first one is that economics is still a useful discipline. That is, an understanding of economic concepts can contribute to a diagnostic analysis of socio-economic change in the Northeast (among other things), identification of policy options, and even choice. Economic paradigms are versatile and mobile. They help people decide how to deal with all difficult social problems. This assertion is certainly not a foregone conclusion and has in fact been contested rather vigorously. In some circles, clearly those less informed, economics as a discipline has been labeled the villain, the cause for social ills from poor roads to dirty air and water. I would not suggest that all economic advice is good, but that is the fault of the practitioner, not the discipline. Economics, like any other social science, can generate apparent scientific objectivity to support just about any motive of the user. There are virtually no sterile concepts in the discipline. When used to guide choice, all economic principles acquire a normative flavor, inevitably benefiting some interests more than others. Scarcity, the beginning of economics, means interdependence and choice based normative judgments. The challenge for economists as social scientists and particularly as policy analysts is to employ the robustness for the discipline for useful purpose, to provide insights helpful to policy and avoid being intimidated by our own discipline. This leads me to my second premise, that judgments, prescriptions and analyses by economists are probably as good as or better than those offered by anyone else. We owe it to ourselves to be involved.

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A Public Choice Perspective on Cartels

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice ◽

10.1332/251569200x15665365495005 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 3-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Zane A. Spindler ◽

Xavier de Vanssay

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Public Goods ◽

Interest Groups ◽

Public Choice ◽

Public Good ◽

Public Interest ◽

Public Good Provision ◽

Efficiency Gains ◽

Public Choice Perspective ◽

Good Provision

Abstract Like interest groups or clubs, cartels might be regarded as associations for voluntary provision of certain unique public goods. In some markets and some technological circumstances, such public good provision might provide a rationale for cartel survival where otherwise they might be expected to fail. There might even be circumstances in which cartels serve the ‘general’ or ‘public’ interest in the process of serving their own interest. In this case, anti-cartel public policy might be reassessed and based on distribution rather than efficiency grounds. The efficiency gains from cartels might then be dissipated by factional competition over distribution of such gains.

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