Economic Politics in the United States: The Costs And Risks Of

Economic Politics in the United States\nby William R. Keech\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: William R. Keech\nTitle: Economic Politics in the United States\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Political economy\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2013\nEdition: 2nd Revised edition\nISBN-13: 9780521178679\nISBN-10: 0521178673\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nEmploying macroeconomic performance as a lens to evaluate democratic institutions, the author uses models of political behavior that allow for opportunism on the part of public officials and shortsightedness on the part of voters to see if democratic institutions lead to inferior macroeconomic performance. We have learned more about how and why democracy can work well or badly in the years since the f.