Public Choice - Science topic

The South African government and economic growth are jeopardised by corruption in public money. Issues stemming from apartheid, inadequate public financial management, fragile regulatory frameworks, and entrenched political favouritism have intensified the situation. This chapter analyses the corruption in South Africa's public finance, its theoret...

Purpose: The objective of this study was to investigate green fiscal policies and their role in promoting sustainable development. Methodology: The study adopted a desktop research methodology. Desk research refers to secondary data or that which can be collected without fieldwork. Desk research is basically involved in collecting data from existin...

The study aimed at investigating the government spending policies and performance of pharmaceutical companies in SouthEast Nigeria. The specific objectives were; To determine the effect of government spending on health on the performance of pharmaceutical companies in SouthEast Nigeria. To examine the effect of government spending on infrastructure...

An internationally celebrated icon of community planning and grassroots activism, the late American urbanist Jane Jacobs is frequently reduced to a caricature of polite, all-purpose sentiments which obfuscate both the complexity and the political specificity of her work. In the first portion of this paper, I examine the popular representation of Ja...

This article explores the determinants of corporatization in Togo, focusing on access to credit, capital, and the domain of operation. Corporatization aims to enhance efficiency, transparency, and financial performance of public enterprises by aligning them with private sector practices. This transformation is influenced by various economic, politi...

Introduction The increasing frequency and severity of climate risks have significantly impacted public health behaviors, particularly sports participation. Understanding how individuals respond to these environmental shocks is crucial for designing effective health and climate adaptation policies. This study examines the short-term and long-term ef...

Extensive research has shown that transition economies often experience internal friction, conflicts, and institutional fragility when different institutional dimensions evolve at an uneven pace. However, limited knowledge exists regarding how institutional fragility specifically affects entrepreneurial activities. This study develops a theoretical...

The international trade policy and also the Common Trade Policy of the European Union in the end of the first decade of the XXI century has been strongly affected by the force of the economic crisis. The changes are evident in the growing importance of international trade to national economies and to domestic groups within those economies, in the c...

The reasons for the demise of economic policy as a value-laden normative theory, within the Frisch-Tinbergen-Theil approach, and those for its reappraisal are very important for academic research. They are critically analyzed in this note which discusses some arguments made in the last Nicola Acocella’s fully-fledged book Rediscovering Economic Pol...

This article examines why the public pays more attention to influencers today than to celebrities. It aims to integrate the author's ideas into the academic field of influencer research and mass culture. We will analyze the psychological differences that motivate the public's adherence to influencers compared to celebrities, drawing on Edgar Morin'...

Ethical judgments require clinicians, researchers, research participants, and patients to weigh risks and benefits. Novel treatments for cognitive deficits are rapidly emerging, but little is known about how individual differences in risk and benefit sensitivity influence ethical judgments to administer treatments. The public plays important roles...

The integration of health and social care has been a key focus in Scotland, driven by demographic changes, rising healthcare costs, and the need for more efficient service delivery. The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 sought to formalise this integration by restructuring governance and service provision to improve coordination bet...

This study examines the characteristics of research papers published by Mexican mathematics educators from 2012 to 2021, focusing on the influence of global and local forces on academic production. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s concepts, we view mathematics education research as a socio-ideological language, where each paper functions as an “utteran...

The relative success of China's state‐capitalist model has reignited debates about state centrality in economic growth and the feasibility of replicating the model in developing countries. Shedding new light on the ongoing dialogue, this study examines the viability of China's model in Ghana and applies the property rights, public choice, and princ...

Global climate change has brought carbon emissions reduction into the global spotlight, and the Chinese government has formulated emissions reduction policies and set targets for carbon peaking and neutralization. This article explores the relationship between policy effectiveness and public participation from the perspective of public choice theor...

Beyond their differences, the various currents of neoliberalism share a common legal agenda: economic constitutionalism. From ordoliberal Ordnungspolitik to new classical macroeconomics and public choice, from Hayek’s ‘constitution of liberty’ to Vanberg’s ‘constitutional political economy’, an institutional agenda has emerged around a number of ke...

The KTP (residence card) has undergone digitalization, with one significant change occurring in 2011, transitioning to e-KTP. The government is now introducing Digital Identity Cards (IKD) as a technological innovation. IKD replaces physical KTP cards with electronic versions that can be stored on devices like smartphones. This study aims to analyz...

This short essay is aimed at commemorating Antal Jászay, or Anthony de Jasay, who made his mark at the interface of political philosophy and public choice, and 2025 is the 100th anniversary of his birth. His relative obscurity is due both to his avoidance of the institutions of the academic world and to the ‘conservative anarchist’ conclusions of h...

This article investigates the extensive effects of budget cuts on public services, revealing significant impacts across healthcare, education, and public safety sectors. Empirical analyses indicate that a 10% reduction in healthcare funding correlates with a 3-5% decrease in patient satisfaction and an observable increase in mortality rates, partic...

This theoretical essay addresses the quality of public spending based on the theories of Public Choice, Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability, and Management by Results. The objective is to provide a multidimensional analysis of how efficiency, transparency, and accountability in public management can be improved, using these different theore...

Kleptokrasi kelimesinin kökeni Yunanca “hırsız” anlamına gelen “kleptēs” ve “güç”/”iktidar” anlamına gelen “kratos” kelimelerine dayanmaktadır. Etimolojik anlamda kleptokrasi “hırsızların egemenliği” anlamına gelen bir kelimedir. Kleptokrasi siyaset bilimi açısından dar ve geniş anlamda olmak üzere iki şekilde tanımlanabilir. Dar anlamda kleptokra...

Politik Psikoloji (Political Psychology) genel anlamda siyasi aktörlerin (siyasi liderler, siyasetçiler, seçmenler vb.) karar, tercih ve eylemlerinin gerisinde yatan davranış ve duyguları inceler. Politik Psikoloji (Siyaset Psikolojisi) siyasi inançlar, değer yargıları, ideolojiler, partizanlık, siyasi karar alma sürecindeki zihinsel süreçler, siya...

What Is Comparative Advantage? Comparative advantage is an economy's ability to produce a particular good or service at a lower opportunity cost than its trading partners. Comparative advantage is used to explain why companies, countries, or individuals can benefit from trade. In the context of international trade, comparative advantage refers to t...

This article examines Brazilian states’ per capita income convergence from 1990 to 2020. A reduction in state inequalities was observed, attributed to the redistribution of resources through the State Participation Fund (FPE) and Constitutional Funds and the Municipal Participation Fund and transfers for health and education, benefiting federative...

Efforts in the discipline to place Trump's ascendancy in historical context and expectations that his presidency is best understood as somewhere between unusual and extraordinary posit both established presidential accountability dynamics and the self-interest of agencies as highly effective constraints on eccentricity. The prevailing fear was that...

The logic of collective action has laid a foundation for the research of public choice, and the success of collective action has been a long-term discussion when free-riding mechanism is considered in the dynamics. This study proposes a , which provides a novel dimension for explaining the logic of collective action. Under the framework, the accumu...

During the Japan Taisho era to the Second Sino-Japanese War, the thoughts of the Japanese scholars experienced large disagreements and enormous alterations. The public, including soldiers, chose Fascism, which is an extreme ideology from all existing thoughts. In the literature review, the current studies either only mentioned the differences and a...

Background: Government service providers in Africa have not taken the issue of value for money to heart. Public opinion has it that government ministries, department, and agencies (MDAs) have not done well considering the quantum of resources sunk into this sub-sector over the years. Aim: Within the framework of the public choice theory, this artic...

The paper is written in the context of the rising electoral gender ratio and consequent competition among the political parties to mobilise the vote and support of the women voters. Its objective is to examine gender-based strategies and electoral politics in India through the lens of two salient theoretical frameworks, namely public choice theory...

This study explored the impact of the administrative transition from Makati to Taguig City on the residents of selected barangays. Collectively referred to as “EMBO”. The study examined residents' perceptions of the benefits and challenges arising from jurisdictional transfers through qualitative research involving in-depth interviews. The theoreti...

Subsidy removal and corruption significantly impact the Nigerian economy. This study investigates the impact of subsidy removal and corruption on the Nigerian economy from 2012 to 2023. The main objective is to analyse the economic consequences of subsidy removal policies and the types and forms of corruption associated with them. The study adopted...

Economic and political phenomena coexist in society, but are often seen as divergent spheres of human action and interaction. A theoretical manifestation of this separation is the assumption that while economic agents act in their own self-interest, political agents are motivated by the public interest. Additionally, it is commonly assumed – if onl...

This paper examines a simple and old question: should innovators receive a patent or a prize? The answer I provide is equally simple: they should receive both. The literature on patents versus prizes has proceeded mostly under the assumption that there should be a choice between a regime of patents and a regime of prizes in which patents fall into...

An attempt to explore the role of individual user initiative in social media platforms popular in China such as Weibo and TikTok. Individual users' choices are flexible as well as directed on social media platforms. The methodology used in this paper is a questionnaire survey to collect user data for analysis. Options with mass characteristics as t...

The decision-making process involves different stages in which the authorities should ensure that citizens’ views and concerns are voiced by encouraging citizens to become directly involved in policy areas and issues so that they can actively engage in collective public choices. Public consultation therefore plays a crucial role in promoting democr...

What has actually happened to the political economy of the United States over the last half-century? For too long now, ‘neoliberalism’ has been the standard answer given, yet today, the term seems to have lost both its analytic and critical capacities. Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution offers readers a fresh and productive response to this fundame...

Objective: To determine the effect of Public Private Partnership (PPP) financing structure on the completion of geothermal energy development projects in Kenya. Theoretical Framework: The study used agency and public choice theories to analyze the dynamics between PPP financing structure and completion of geothermal energy development projects. Met...

Why do free markets at the macroeconomic level perform better than command and control economies over time? Similarly, why do more open, less rigid hierarchal organizational systems at the microeconomic level, generate higher levels of productivity over the long term? Systems thinker Russ Ackhoff asserted that if you want to know how something work...

The work of Vernon Smith and his collaborators that has come to be associated with the label “humanomics” offers both substantive and methodological amendments to economic theory. On the substantive level, humanomics offers a theory of human agency that is distinct from both neoclassical and behavioral economics. On the methodological level, humano...

Humanomics, an approach to studying human behavior championed by Vernon Smith, Bart Wilson, and Deirdre McCloskey, is rooted in an acknowledgment that human beings self-examine their conduct and sentiments. The economic way of thinking, therefore, must be located within the mass of evidence about human behavior produced outside of its neoclassical...

The humanomics model of human behavior suggests that individuals act not merely to maximize narrow conceptions of their own self-interest but instead are motivated by fellow feeling and a desire to act in a praiseworthy way. Because they learn what is praise- and blameworthy from face-to-face exchanges in moral communities to which they belong, the...

Food is a basic need of society which is included in primary needs. Food needs are one of the human rights that must be fulfilled, both processed and unprocessed food. Processed food such as bread is also a public choice. The distribution of bread from producers as business actors to the hands of consumers certainly goes through a series of process...

Based on the Resource-Based View (RBV) and Public Choice Theory, this study examines the impact of an industrial policy instrument—the identification of “Time-Honored Brand” (THB) in China—on the performance of businesses. Leveraging the unique context of the Ministry of Commerce’s 2006 re-identification of THBs, this study ingeniously constructs a...

This paper develops a behavioral public choice model. It provides testable hypothesis to explain voter shifts in European national elections in the last decade. The model comprises three blocs of parties, the government, the opposition and so-called “profiteers”. Retrospective voters evaluate the performance of each bloc. Furthermore, it introduces...

This study, titled Petroleum Subsidy and the Future of Nigeria's Oil Sector: From Consumer Relief to Market Deregulation, explores the impact of Nigeria's removal of petroleum subsidies on its oil sector and broader economy. The primary objective is to assess the challenges and benefits associated with this market deregulation, with particular atte...

In this article, we introduce a new dataset—the Comparative Semi-Presidential Database (CSPD)—covering classifications of semi-presidential regimes. In contrast to other databases, the CSPD offers several classifications based on different definitions of semi-presidential regimes along with subtypes of semi-presidential regimes. We use definitions...

This article examines the use and distribution of oil royalties in Brazil, which shifted from being treated as financial compensation to taxation following the enactment of laws by the National Congress. This change in the treatment of royalties can be explained by public choice theory, which suggests that the actions of parliamentarians reflect th...

Bu çalışma, Prof.Dr.Coşkun Can Aktan'ın, Kamu Tercihi (Public Choice) ve Davranışsal İktisat (Behavioral Economics) adı verilen iki ayrı disiplinin kesişim noktasında yer alan Davranışsal Politik İktisat (Behavioral Political Economy) isimli disiplin üzerine yapılan söyleşiye dair notları içermektedir. Söz konusu eserin künyesi şu şekildedir: Akta...

Bu çalışmada, Prof.Dr.Coşkun Can Aktan'ın, Kamu Tercihi (Public Choice) ve Davranışsal İktisat (Behavioral Economics) adı verilen iki ayrı disiplinin kesişim noktasında yer alan Davranışsal Politik İktisat (Behavioral Political Economy) isimli disiplinin takdimini yaptığı Davranışsal Politik İktisat isimli kitabının tanıtımı yapılmaktadır. Söz ko...

Davranışsal politik iktisat, kamu tercihi teorisinin “rasyonalite” ve davranışsal iktisat teorisinin “irrasyonalite” ve/veya “sınırlı rasyonalite” temel varsayımlarını esas alarak siyasal karar alma sürecinin iktisadi ve psikolojik analizini yapan bir araştırma programıdır. Bu giriş niteliğindeki araştırma, okuyucuya “davranışsal kamu tercihi” olar...

Introduction Case reports are perceived as having diminished value relative to other study designs. It has been said that medical toxicology (MT) is based largely upon case report literature and thought to be unique in this regard. We sought to quantify recent MT publication of case reports compared with top periodicals from emergency medicine (EM)...

“Katkılarının genişliği, derinliği, hacmi ve çok disiplinli önemi göz önüne alındığında, belki de "Buchanan Külliyatı" diyebileceğimiz bir alanın gelişebileceğini söyleyebiliriz.” Art Carden Samford Üniversitesi profesörlerinden Art Carden’in gayet isabetle ifade ettiği üzere akademik kariyerlerini Adam Smith külliyatı, Friedrich Hayek külliyatı,...

Cities increasingly address climate change, e.g. by pledging city-level emission reduction targets. This is puzzling for the provision of a global public good: what are city governments’ reasons for doing so, and do pledges actually translate into emission reductions? Empirical studies have found a set of common factors which relate to these questi...

The concept paper "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Interplay Between Human Rights, Governance, and National Development: A Theoretical and Practical Exploration" offers a critical analysis of the intricate relationships between human rights, governance, and national development in Zambia. Through an interdisciplinary lens, it employs multiple...

This study investigates the factors influencing corruption in the health sector, using Dar es Salaam City Council as a case study. The research is guided by the Public Choice Theory, which posits that individuals in the public sector act in their self-interest, leading to corrupt practices when the opportunity arises. A descriptive research design...

Benim bu yazımın başlığında kullandılan “Büyük Maliyeci James M. Buchanan” da haybeye kullanılmış bir söz değildir. Nobel Ekonomi ödülü sonrasında Kamu Tercihi (Public Choice) ve Anayasal Politik İktisat (Constitutional Political Economy) alanlardaki katkıları ön plana geçtiğinden dolayı onun Kamu Ekonomisi ve Kamu Maliyesi alanlarındaki katkıları...

Inflation as a macroeconomic variable is influenced by many policies and has many welfare implications for different groups of society. By referring to the literature of public choice we can say that inflation changes have winners and losers. In this article, the long-term persistence of inflationary conditions in Iran was investigated. For this pu...

This paper addresses the pressing concern of corporate tax evasion recognized by several nations, employing insights from public choice theory and tax compliance theory. The research aims to evaluate the ramifications of corporate tax evasion on public revenue, public expenditures, tax rates, and the prevailing budget deficit. Methodologically, the...

Objective: The objective of this study is to analyze the sources and allocation of federal public resources applied to natural disasters in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul in 2024. Theoretical Framework: Based on Public Choice Theory, the study investigates how self-interests can influence the allocation of public resources, which is relev...

This study investigates how local air quality influences UK Parliament members’ votes on environmental and climate change legislation. Using micro-spatial information at the 1 km-by-1 km grid level, I link local air quality to members of UK parliament (MPs') voting records from 2009 to 2019. I find compelling evidence that MPs representing highly p...

Purpose: The general objective of the study was to explore Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and their effectiveness in alleviating poverty. Methodology: The study adopted a desktop research methodology. Desk research refers to secondary data or that which can be collected without fieldwork. Desk research is basically involved in collecting data f...

Greenflation or inflation for green energy transition in Europe becomes a structural problem of new scarcity and poverty, under Austrian Economics analysis. The current European public agenda on the Green Deal and its fiscal and monetary policies are closer to coercive central planning, against the markets, economic calculus, and Mises’ theorem. In...

While earnings manipulation has a broad literature in the private sector, there is a lack of research on this topic in the public sector. This paper aims to explore the level of earnings management in Spanish provincial councils. The use of accrual accounting may be viewed negatively by stakeholders such as the central government, opposition partie...

Objective: The objective of this article was to investigate how public policies to promote productive activities can be influenced by the actions of interest groups, affect decision-making, and consequently increase the risks of failure and generate government failures. Theoretical Framework: The theoretical framework adopted is the theories of Pub...

Economics is frequently criticised for relying on a narrow and limited view of human beings. This may be particularly true of economic analyses of non-market decisions in which individuals often appear reduced to self-interested automata who maximise a given objective function. In this article, we show that the approach of one of the founders of pu...

A fundamental question in examining the monetary system is “who should have the right to create money?” The response provided by the conventional monetary system (fractional reserve system), is to distribute this right between the central bank and commercial banks. But this “historical response”, is a “Public Choice”, not necessarily based on effic...

Research has pointed towards U.S. state officials setting COVID regulations based on their constituents’ political affiliation. But a further explanation is needed as prior to 2020, U.S. voters did not choose their political party in accord with how they thought politicians would act in a pandemic. In contrast, other papers have found that people w...

This article analyzes Canada’s economic system from a systems thinking perspective. The content includes patterns of public choice (party system and power distribution), organizational framework of decision-making arrangements, information provision and coordination mechanisms, property rights system, incentive system, and welfare system. Canada’s...

One of the basic challenges in public spheres, which has become an important issue in the new political economy, is the protection of public interests against personal interests. This challenge has been accepted in the conventional economy as a field reality and based on its foundations, and its adjustment through the privatization of many public a...

Climate-related disasters have been escalating worldwide, incurring major losses. Landslides have become one of the most destructive disasters, especially in China's mountainous areas. To address this, constructing emergency shelters and designing evacuation routes are critical to ensure public safety and minimize impacts on affected residents. Thi...

Present-day literature has extensively discussed bureaucratic corruption from different perspectives. However, there is a scarcity of literature that explores the broader narratives of bureaucratic corruption driven by self-interest and ethnic agendas. This paper aims to examine the prevalence of high-level bureaucratic corruption in Africa, specif...

The problem of risk in agriculture affects, as in any other activity, many of its areas not only of an economic nature, but also of a social one. At a time of growing social crisis, the search for models for the functioning of the welfare state seems justified. One instrument that mitigates social risks so that they can be incorporated into the nor...

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis dinamika kelembagaan sektor Publik di Banyuwangi dalam prespekif tindakan-tindakan (actions) dan pola perilaku (behavioral patterns) para aktor politik yang ada di Banyuwangi untuk merespon inovasi sektor public yang dilakukan oleh Pemerintah Kabupaten Banyuwangi. Inovasi sektor public telah mene...

This special issue reflects one of the first systematic inquiries into the effects of revolutions on institutional change, a topic previously explored only tangentially across diverse social science domains. It fosters interdisciplinary discourse on revolutionary outcomes among economists, political scientists, sociologists, and economic historians...

Public choice theory as it relates to the issues of Corruption and Leadership in Nigeria has become nauseating in governance palace. The romantic relationship of leaders and voters are made to be stronger during electioneering campaigns and loosed after election. This theory has been found to be applicable in the Nigerian case of corruption and lea...

RESUMO: Este estudo se dedica à investigação dos fundamentos sobre os quais estão assentados os pressupostos de elaboração normativo-institucional do Estado contemporâneo, no cerne das teorias hegemônicas da economia do setor público (a Public Choice Theory e a New Institutional Economics ), e problematiza criticamente o fato de tais pressupostos s...

This paper introduces asymmetric information into the analysis of cooperative games with agreements implemented by a third party and establishes theoretical models of a one-time information asymmetric cooperative game with agreements implemented by a third party for the first time, using the methodology proposed in previously done research studying...

Nowadays, it is thought that there are only two approaches to political economy: public finance and public choice; however, this research aims to introduce a new insight by investigating scholastic sources. We study the relevant classic books from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries and reevaluate the scholastic literature based on public f...

This paper introduces the special issue on complex externalities and public choice. The collection of essays extends analytical bridges between public choice, property rights economics, and new institutional economics. The essays question many of our prevailing assumptions behind the standard conceptualization of externalities. They also offer prag...

This is a study on Political Economy and Public Finance, also Economic History, Economic Thought and History of Institutions, according to heterodox approaches, to clarify the paradox of European tourism and its financial risks within the European Monetary Union of the European Union. Despite being a competitive sector, which accounts for more than...

This study investigates the impact of fiscal management practices on the quality of primary education in Edo State, Nigeria. With the backdrop of increasing concerns over educational outcomes and the efficient use of resources, this research aims to identify how financial governance within the education sector influences the quality and accessibili...

Over the time, successive governments in Nigerian formulated several economic development policies to enhance the livelihood of their citizens, but unfortunately, the economic benefits appear significantly low. This study seeks to assess the impact of government policies on sustainable economic development, specifically on poverty alleviation initi...

The issue of Boko Haram terrorism has hampered Nigeria's attempts to improve its economy over time. The political community feels fear and anxiety due to this sect’s wanton destruction of people’s lives and property. The progress of any country is greatly affected by the safety of the lives and property of its citizens. Therefore, in this study the...

In classical literatures, the informal sector is regarded as all those economic activities that are neither taxed nor monitored by any form of government. However, with the downturn of economic activities in Nigeria due to the dwindling oil revenue which forms the major revenue generation and export earnings of Nigeria, the informal sector, specifi...

Vocational education contributes to the development of public values, with external effects on promoting social employment and achieving balance in educational structure. However, vocational education also enhances individual vocational abilities, which does not meet the standard of non-excludability. When individuals receive vocational education,...

Purpose: The general objective of the study was to explore the relationship between corruption and economic development. Methodology: The study adopted a desktop research methodology. Desk research refers to secondary data or that which can be collected without fieldwork. Desk research is basically involved in collecting data from existing resource...

Purpose: The aim of the study was to analyze the impact of subsidy removal on smallholder livestock farmers' productivity in Nigeria. Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low...

This paper aims to emphasize the need for enhancing inclusivity and accessibility within smart-city societies. It represents the first attempt to apply Amartya Sen’s capability approach by exploring the implications of digital divides for promoting inclusive and climate-friendly cities that prioritize well-being, equity, and societal participation....

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the analysis of government policies on rice production in Thailand: a policy evaluation study. Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because...

Sustained economic growth is both cause and consequence of many different changes in society. This chapter introduces how a country’s national income and total expenditure relates to other aspects of social and economic development. We begin by introducing the role of capital accumulation, as public and private investment drives a growing stock of...

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of research papers being published, leading to what many feel is an overload of information. This makes it difficult for researchers to choose the right journal for their work. To help with this, journal recommender systems have been suggested as useful tools to help researchers find th...

The primary objective of this research is to investigate public transportation governance in Banyumas Regency using the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm, with the aim of enhancing efficiency and effectiveness. The study focuses on understanding the factors that influence people's preferences for public transportation modes, particularly in rela...

This empirical study extends the public choice literature on the allocation of death during war by examining the political economy of foreign fighter deaths in the Russo-Ukrainian War since the 24 February 2022 invasion. The study explores the roles played by various demographic factors, military institutions, and international trade relations in d...

This paper reveals a novel and perhaps surprising ingredient in the mix of influences that inspired and informed the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom on self-governance: cybernetics, understood as a theory of control via feedback mechanisms. Based on this crucial insight, the paper portrays self-governance as involving an architecture of multiple...

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Since the early studies of Olson (The logic of collective action, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1971/1965) and Tullock (Public Choice 11:89–99, 1971), who first defined the paradox of revolution, there has been a great deal of relevant work based on rational choice theory. While the main point of this research is to investigate solutions to...

The public choice literature has long considered the political economy of environmental regulation and has examined a variety of national and subnational governments’ environmental policies aimed at adaption to climate change. However, there has been little attention paid to the determinants of environmental adaptive actions taken by indigenous gov...

It is emphasised that the trade liberalisation has a special positive significance in the global context. Due to technical progress and to the growth of economic ties between particular countries, participants in the world economy, the benefits resulting from liberalised international trade and from the freedom of movement of foreign direct investm...

This study investigates the impact of fiscal management practices on the quality of primary education in Edo State, Nigeria. With the backdrop of increasing concerns over educational outcomes and the efficient use of resources, this research aims to identify how financial governance within the education sector influences the quality and accessibili...