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Planning and the Political Market

Public Choice and the Politics of Government Failure

Planning and the Political Market argues that the enthusiasm for planning as an essential component of environmental protection is misplaced. Drawing on the experience of Britain and other Western democracies, the author uses public choice theory to explore the practical experience of land use planning as an example of government failure. The book opens by outlining the institutional focus of public choice theory, examining the central questions of market and government failure and the theoretical case for government intervention in the environment. Having explored the principal impacts of planning the book goes on to analyse the institutional structures which have produced these policy outcomes. The analysis suggests that institutional incentives within the 'political market' have frequently led to policies which favour special interest groups and public sector bureaucracy. The book concludes with an assessment of the potential for a private property rights, free market alternative to increase community involvement and access.

INTEREST GROUPS, COLLECTIVE ACTION AND PLANNING INTRODUCTION
This chapter uses public choice theory to explore the role of interest groups on
the demand side of the political market in planning. The emphasis on interest
groups and collective action problems is important given the current significance
attributed to the role of public participation within the environmental policy
literature, and collaborative planning theory in particular. In recent years there
has been a ...

The Population Ecology of Interest Representation

Lobbying Communities in the American States

This examination of lobbying communities explores how interest group populations are constructed and how they influence politics and public policy. By examining how populations of interest groups are comprised, this work fills an important gap between existing theories of the origins of individual interest groups and studies of interest group influence. The population ecology model of interest communities developed here builds on insights first developed in population biology and later employed by organizational ecologists. The model's central premise is that it is the environmental forces confronting interest organizations that most directly shape the contours of interest populations. After examining the demography of interest organizations in the fifty American states, the population ecology model is used to account for variations in the density and diversity of their interest communities, the nature of competition among similar interest organizations to establish viable niches, and the impact of alternative configurations of interest communities on the legislative process and the policies it produces. These empirical findings suggest that the environment of interest communities is highly constraining, limiting their size, composition, and potential impact on politics. Virginia Gray is Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota. David Lowery is Burton Craige Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

For the most part, however, this literature has been descriptive, with scholars
contending over whether balkanization provides an accurate description of
interest organization communities. Given the importance accorded to how we
answer this question, it is surprising that much less attention has been devoted to
explaining why and under what conditions balkanization can be sustained. The
best explanation we have is niche theory. J. Q. Wilson (1973, 263), although not
employing the ...

The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups

The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups is a major new volume that will help scholars assess the current state of scholarship on parties and interest groups and the directions in which it needs to move. Never before has the academic literature on political parties received such an extended treatment. Twenty nine chapters critically assess both the major contributions to the literature and the ways in which it has developed. With contributions from most of the leading scholars in the field, the volume provides a definitive point of reference for all those working in and around the area. Equally important, the authors also identify areas of new and interesting research. These chapters offer a distinctive point of view, an argument about the successes and failures of past scholarship, and a set of recommendations about how future work ought to develop. This volume will help set the agenda for research on political parties and interest groups for the next decade. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III

After the four-step framework, I consider various developing themes in interest
group theory, especially as it applies to American politics. THE FOUR-STEP
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK The Federalist Papers, particularly contributions
by James Madison, set forth a theory of the constitutional order which has
influenced Americans ever since. In particular the Federalist Papers set forth a
type of theory of interest groups later known as “countervailing power,” or that
could be referenced ...

The Elgar Companion to Public Choice

'. . . this compendium offers a solid introduction into an economic field that is gaining in influence.' – Detmar Doering, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 'The first essay in this volume, "Public Choice at the Millennium," by the two editors, sets a high standard for all the essays to follow. . . The essay takes us through the early history of public choice research in a particularly lucid fashion. . . This first article is destined to be a must-read on many reading lists on both graduate and undergraduate courses in political economy. . . . the volume is likely to become a much-used reference tool. . . . for those researchers interested in a comprehensive discussion of the far-reaching literature in this area, and want some provocation in the mix, this is clearly the right choice.' – Sharon M. Oster, Public Choice 'Many of the chapters of this handbook will be an indispensable addition to any course reading list in public choice, or public economics. They serve as an excellent complement, integrating diverse lines of thoughts, to the core scholarly writings in the field. The essays are well-written and succeed, admirably, in accomplishing what a handbook must, making difficult and disparate material quite comprehensible to someone who wishes to become acquainted with the area.' – Harold M. Hochman, Lafayette College, US 'This is an extremely valuable insiders' account of what public choice is about. Presented in thirty well-reasoned and documented chapters, the book is a treasure trove for every political economist.' – Jürgen G. Backhaus, Maastricht University, The Netherlands This authoritative and encyclopaedic reference work provides a thorough account of the public choice approach to economics and politics. The Companion breaks new ground by joining together the most important issues in the field in a single comprehensive volume. It contains state-of-the-art discussions of both old and contemporary problems, including new work by the founding fathers as well as contributions by a new generation of younger scholars. The book reviews the literature of public choice, highlighting the common ground between all rational choice approaches to politics. It demonstrates the important impact of public choice on economics, political science, philosophy and sociology. It will be an indispensable source of reference for many years to the ideas, analytical methods and empirical research in the field. The Companion will serve as the standard reference work for all those engaged in the field of public choice and will be essential reading for politicians and policymakers, scholars in political science, public and social choice, as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.

1 Introduction The interest-group theory of government seeks to explain
governmental behavior on the basis of the costs of organizing interest groups in
order to seek wealth transfers through the aegis of the state (or, what is
analytically the same thing, the costs of organizing interest groups to resist
governmental expropriation of wealth). As such, interest groups have long
commanded the attention of scholars who sought a better positive understanding
of how government works or a ...

American Intergovernmental Relations, Foundations, Perspectives, and Issues, 5th Ed. + Collision Course + the Rebirth of Federalism, Slouching Toward Washington, 2nd Ed. Package

Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution

A Gramscian Analysis

Rehmann provides a comprehensive Gramscian socio-analysis of Max Weber's political and intellectual position in the ideological network of his time. He deciphers Weber as an organic intellectual who constructs a new bourgeois hegemony in the transition to 'Fordism'.

175–7, 180, 193). 3 Troeltsch 1905. 4 Du Bois 1906. See Zimmerman 2010, pp.
207ff. © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 5 | doi . 63/9789004 8099 _003 5
Marianne Weber 1975, pp. 290–1. 6 Marianne Weber 1975, Chapter 1 Weber's
1904 Journey to America.

World Tensions; Conflict and Accommodation

Zimmerman, L. J., Poor Lands, Rich Lands: The Widening Gap (New York,
Random House, 1965). An analysis of changes in the world distribution of
income and of the economic structures of developed and underdeveloped
countries. Using a wealth of statistical material, the author explains the differential
rates of growth and the implications of the increasingly unequal distribution of
world income. Zimmerman, Erich W., Erich W. Zimmerman's Introduction to World
Resources, Hunger, ...

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