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"Contents" [2005] ELECD 99; in Marciano, Alain; Josselin, Jean-Michel (eds), "Law and the State" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: Law and the State

Editor(s): Marciano, Alain; Josselin, Jean-Michel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768005

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix

1 Introduction Making sense of the state: a political economy
approach 1
Jean-Michel Josselin and Alain Marciano

PART I HOW TO SHAPE A DEMOCRATIC STATE:
THE INFORMATIONAL CONSTRAINT

2 Schumpeterian political economy and Downsian public
choice: alternative economic theories of democracy 21
Michael Wohlgemuth
3 The effects of cyberspace on the economic theory of the state 58
Eli M. Salzberger and Niva Elkin-Koren
4 Explaining the great divergence: medium and message on the
Eurasian land mass, 1700­1850 100
Leonard Dudley
5 George Orwell and his cold wars: truth and politics 121
Manfred J. Holler
6 Measuring terrorism 142
Bruno S. Frey and Simon Luechinger

PART II HOW TO CONTROL A DEMOCRATIC STATE:
THE LEGAL CONSTRAINT

7 Rule of law, finance and economic development: cross-country
evidence 185
Stefan van Hemmen and Frank H. Stephen
8 Judicial independence as a necessary component of the rule of
law: preliminary insights and economic consequences 242
Stefan Voigt

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9 Democracy, citizens and judicial power: do judges contribute
to democracy? 269
Sophie Harnay
10 Law, justice and republic: the French republican model of
judicial regulation 283
Christian Barrère
11 Should non-expert courts control expert administrations? 310
Georg von Wangenheim

PART III THE STATE AT WORK: REGULATION AND
PUBLIC POLICIES UNDER INFORMATIONAL
AND LEGAL CONSTRAINTS

12 Pelle sub agnina latitat mens saepe lupina: copyright in the
marketplace 335
Giovanni B. Ramello
13 Competition in banking: switching costs and ...