Building Political Consensus and Distributing Resources: A Trade‐Off or a Compatible Choice?

Building Political Consensus and Distributing Resources: A Trade-Off Or a Compatible Choice?

How Compatible are Public Choice and Austrian Political Economy?

Public Choice relies heavily on equilibrium analysis in its models of government failure. Austrians are suspicious of equilibrium analysis owing to its reliance on some variant of the perfect-knowledge assumption. To what extent then can Austrians consistently embrace public-choice descriptions of government failure? This paper argues that to maintain methodological consistency Public Choice sh...

Distributing News and Political Influence

Mass media affect both who receives political information, and what information is received. This influences policy formation since politicians tend to favor informed voters and well covered issues. Politicians do so for good reasons, not only are well informed voters more likely to vote than uninformed voters,1 but also more likely to vote for the candidate who furthers their interests.2 Voter...

A Dynamic Tradeoff Model of Intertemporal Choice

The delay discounting perspective, which assumes an alternative-wise processing of attribute information, has long dominated research on intertemporal choice. Recent studies, however, have suggested that intertemporal choice is based on attribute-wise comparison. This line of research culminated in the tradeoff model (Scholten & Read, 2010; Scholten, Read, & Sanborn, 2014), which can accommodat...

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...