1995
DOI: 10.1007/bf01298377
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Economic and political competition in neoclassical and evolutionary perspective

Abstract: Abstract. Neoclassical welfare economics still looms large in the discipline of public choice. Particularly, by constructing analogies of political competition fundamental shortcomings of "old" neoclassical paradigms found their way into a "new" theory of political economy. Especially the failure to deal with the problem of limited knowledge and with the role of institutions obscured fundamental differences between political and economic systems of coordination and control. Hence, I propose a non-neoclassical … Show more

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“…This approach follows the previous one when we ask: What are parties are responsive to? Wohlgemuth (1995Wohlgemuth ( , 84, 2002, following Hayek, argues that "political competition can be reinterpreted to be … a communication process in which preferences and opinions are created, discovered, selected and disseminated." In other words, politics is more than just a means of aggregating known preferences into a social decision.…”
Section: Thinking Generally About Economic and Political Competitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This approach follows the previous one when we ask: What are parties are responsive to? Wohlgemuth (1995Wohlgemuth ( , 84, 2002, following Hayek, argues that "political competition can be reinterpreted to be … a communication process in which preferences and opinions are created, discovered, selected and disseminated." In other words, politics is more than just a means of aggregating known preferences into a social decision.…”
Section: Thinking Generally About Economic and Political Competitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Die gegenwärtige institutionelle Entscheidungsstruktur der EU erlaubt sowohl den nationa- Wohlgemuth, 1995Wohlgemuth, , 2002Vanberg, 2008b. und "Konföderation autonomer Einzelstaaten" dar. 20 Ohne den starken zentralistischen Akteuren in der EU entgegenwirkende Begrenzungen wird dieses Ideal nicht zu realisieren sein.…”
Section: Reform Des Vertragsänderungsverfahrensunclassified
“…Da der Aufsatz seinen Schwerpunkt in der historischen Analyse hat, soll es hier nur insoweit wiedergegeben werden, als es fü r die folgende empirische Untersuchung relevant ist. (Wohlgemuth, 1995).…”
Section: Funktionsweisen Voraussetzungen Und Grenzen Von Systemwettbunclassified
“…Regulierungswettbewerb ist Teil eines ü bergreifenden institutionellen oder Systemwettbewerbs. Bei der Analyse historischer Prozesse liegt es nahe, auf ein evolutorisch-dynamisches Konzept des Systemwettbewerbs zurü ckzugreifen, wobei hier das von Manfred E. Streit und anderen entwickelte zugrunde gelegt wird (Windisch, 1998, Streit, 1995aStreit und Kiwitt, 1999;Gerken, 1995 (Wohlgemuth, 1995).…”
Section: Funktionsweisen Voraussetzungen Und Grenzen Von Systemwettbunclassified