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  • Supreme Court Economic Review

    Volume 24

    Edited by Jonathan Klick, Eric Helland ...
    Series Book 24 - Supreme Court Economic Review
    The Supreme Court Economic Review is a faculty-edited, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary law and economics series with a particular focus on economic and social science analysis of judicial decision making, institutional analysis of law and legal structures, political economy and public choice issues regarding courts and other decision-makers, and the relationship between legal and political ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • Thinking Like a Political Scientist

    A Practical Guide to Research Methods

    by Christopher Howard ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "A compelling case for transforming how research methods are taught to undergraduate students of political science." — London School of Economics Review of BooksEach year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books ... Read more

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  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Irrational Economist

    Making Decisions in a Dangerous World

    Edited by Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Paul Slovic ...
    Of the twenty most costly catastrophes since 1970, more than half have occurred since 2001. Is this an omen of what the 21st century will be? How might we behave in this new, uncertain and more dangerous environment? Will our actions be rational or irrational?A select group of scholars, innovators, and Nobel Laureates was asked to address challenges to rational decision making both in our day-to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Democratic Policymaking

    An Analytic Approach

    by Charles Barrilleaux, Christopher Reenock, Mark Souva ...
    This introduction applies analytic models to policymaking challenges, equipping students with tools to evaluate core policymaking dilemmas. Students are introduced to the approaches of game theory, social choice theory, research design and causal inference. Key terms, along with current research, are highlighted to build an understanding of public policy study. Exercises and thought questions ... Read more

    $69.69 USD

  • Valuing Life

    Humanizing the Regulatory State

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    "Clear explanations and concrete examples of how the behavioral orientation in economics can contribute to the world of cost/benefit policy formulation." — ChoiceThe White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the United States' regulatory overseer. In Valuing Life, New York Times–bestselling author and legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the ... Read more

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  • Public Choice III

    by Dennis C. Mueller ...
    This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). Six new chapters have been added, and several chapters from the previous edition have been extensively revised. The discussion of empirical work in public choice has been greatly expanded. As in the previous editions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include: why the state exists, ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • Preventing Regulatory Capture

    Special Interest Influence and How to Limit it

    Edited by Daniel Carpenter, David A. Moss ...
    When regulations (or lack thereof) seem to detract from the common good, critics often point to regulatory capture as a culprit. In some academic and policy circles it seems to have assumed the status of an immutable law. Yet for all the ink spilled describing and decrying capture, the concept remains difficult to nail down in practice. Is capture truly as powerful and unpreventable as the ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Just Plain Data Analysis

    Finding, Presenting, and Interpreting Social Science Data

    by Gary M. Klass ...
    Just Plain Data Analysis teaches students statistical literacy skills that they can use to evaluate and construct arguments about public affairs issues grounded in numerical evidence. The book addresses skills that are often not taught in introductory social science research methods courses and that are often covered sketchily in the research methods textbooks: where to find commonly used measures ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Law’s Abnegation

    From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State

    by Adrian Vermeule ...
    Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons.In area after area, judges and lawyers, working out the logical implications of legal principles, have come to ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Precision Journalism

    A Reporter's Introduction to Social Science Methods

    by Philip Meyer ...
    Philip Meyer's work in precision journalism established a new and ongoing trend-the use by reporters of social science research techniques to increase the depth and accuracy of major stories. In this fully updated, fourth edition of the classic Precision Journalism (known as The New Precision Journalism in its third edition), Meyer shows journalists and students of journalism how to use new ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Speaking Truth to Power

    Art and Craft of Policy Analysis

    Edited by Robbin Laird ...
    One of the foremost experts in public policy here attempts not only to describe what public policy is, but given societal changes in the last two decades, to account for its present status.To learn from the past in order to establish public policy as a discipline in its own right, Wildavsky traces its motifs from their beginnings in the 1960s to the 1980s. Starting from the premise that there has ... Read more

    $70.99 USD