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Published in: Public Choice 3-4/2012

01-09-2012

The Calculus of Consent: reforming political science

Author: Peter C. Ordeshook

Published in: Public Choice | Issue 3-4/2012

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Four books mark the beginning of what we can call contemporary political theory and the explicit injection of the rational choice or individualistic paradigm into the discipline of political science: Anthony Downs’s An Economic Theory of Democracy (1957), William Riker’s Theory of Political Coalitions (1962), James Buchanan and Tullock’s Calculus of Consent (1962), and Mancur Olson’s Logic of Collective Action (1965). There were, of course, other seminal volumes of the period that had a profound impact on how we viewed and studied politics, such as Kenneth Arrow’s Social Choice and Individual Values (1951) and Duncan Black’s Theory of Committees and Elections (1958). But the impact of these four on the discipline was immediate and profound. …
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Literature
Arrow, K. (1951). Social choice and individual values. New York: Wiley.
Black, D. (1958). The theory of committees and elections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Buchanan, J. M., & Tullock, G. (1962). The calculus of consent. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Downs, A. (1957). An economic theory of democracy. New York: Harper & Row.
Olson, M. (1965). The logic of collective action. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Riker, W. H. (1962). The theory of political coalitions. New Haven/London: Yale University Press.
Metadata
Title
The Calculus of Consent: reforming political science
Author
Peter C. Ordeshook
Publication date
01-09-2012
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Public Choice / Issue 3-4/2012
Print ISSN: 0048-5829
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7101
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-012-9993-1

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