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"Contents" [2007] ELECD 214; in Marciano, Alain; Josselin, Jean-Michel (eds), "Democracy, Freedom and Coercion" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007)

Book Title: Democracy, Freedom and Coercion

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

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847201263

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors vii

Introduction ix
Jean-Michel Josselin and Alain Marciano

PART 1. DOES POWER (AND THE DEMOCRATIC
USE OF POWER IN PARTICULAR)
NECESSARILY MEAN COERCION?

1. Variations on the Lupus et Agnus story: in search of the homo
sapiens 3
Giuseppe Eusepi and Alessandra Cepparulo
2. Freedom of choice, power, and the responsibility of decision
makers 22
Manfred J. Holler
3. Hayek and economic policy (the Austrian road to the Third Way) 46
Enrico Colombatto

PART 2. IS LEGITIMATE COERCION REALLY
LEGITIMATE?

4. Defining economic democracy: a challenge. An institutionalist
framework 69
Christian Barrère
5. The big pattern of democracy: a study of the Gastil Index 103
Martin Paldam
6. Violence and its impact on democracy in Colombia 130
Giorgio Brosio and Roberto Zanola

PART 3. DEMOCRATIC SAFEGUARDS AGAINST
ILLEGITIMATE COERCION

7. Language as platform: a theory of subsidiarity and the nation
state 155
Leonard Dudley

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8. Leviathan or Geryon? Power abuse in democratic societies 171
Louis M. Imbeau
9. Political institutions and policy innovations: theoretical
thoughts and evidence on labor market regulation 192
Lars P. Feld and Jan Schnellenbach
10. Compliance in the EU enlargement process: institutional
reform and the limits of conditionality 221
Bernard Steunenberg and Antoaneta Dimitrova

Conclusion: Hobbes and the political economy of power 251
Donald Wittman

Index 267