Southern Economic Journal · 1981 · 49 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesEconomicsPolitical ScienceDemocratizationInstitutional TheoryPolitical EconomyDemocracyEconomic InstitutionsPolitical PowerPolitical RegimesState TheoryState-business RelationsInstitutional Determinants Of GrowthPolitical Economy Of GovernancePolitical RevolutionState Size
I A Multidimensional Economic Theory of Governments.- 1 The State as a Service Firm, the Production of Order.- 2 Theories of the Emergence of States.- 3 The Sizes of States.- 4 The Qualities of State Activity.- II The Problem of Government.- 5 The Monopoly State.- 6 Democracy, the Corporate State.- 7 Democracy as a Consumer Good.- 8 Experimental Remedies: Some Preposterous Proposals.- Appendixes.- I Entrepreneurship, Profit, and Limits on Firm Size.- II Political Revolution and Repression: An Economic Approach.- III The GPITPC and Institutional Entropy.- List of References.- Notes.- Indexes.