Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1007/s10602-023-09418-9
Barbara Dluhosch, Daniel Horgos
Abstract Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) have mushroomed over the last decades. However, the various forms of bi- and plurilateral arrangements have always been met with the concern that their proliferation might come at the expense of overall trade freedom because of undermining multilateral governance. This paper starts from the fact that international treaties are notoriously difficult to enforce, as is compliance with (trade) agreements. By focusing on the political economy of how cooperation in trade liberalization is ultimately sustained via the threat of retaliation as institutionalized within the World Trade Organization (WTO), the paper illuminates a novel and completely different channel between PTA membership and multilateral trade liberalization. Exploring their interaction with respect to trade freedom, we explain that PTA membership actually improves on the working of multilateral arrangements that are supposed to ensure cooperation in trade liberalization, thus effectively catering to more open trade.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1007/s10602-023-09419-8
Louis Corriveau
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Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1007/s10602-023-09417-w
Malte Dold
Abstract This paper starts with the observation from behavioral economics that preferences are endogenous, i.e., they are unstable, context-dependent, and open to processes of adaptation. It then asks whether welfare analysis and normative economics are still possible in a world populated by people with endogenous preferences. In particular, it looks at recent proposals by Viktor Vanberg and Carl Christian von Weizsäcker. In highlighting an institutional perspective, both can be seen as proponents of modern ordoliberalism and both claim that their approaches can deal with the issue of endogenous preferences in a more coherent way than approaches that remain within the mind frame of traditional welfare economics. The paper argues that in mainly highlighting the importance of information provision for individual autonomy, Vanberg’s approach of constitutional political economy (CPE) underestimates the complexity of preference endogeneity. While von Weizsäcker’s approach is a refinement of the CPE framework, the paper argues that it focuses too much on external structural conditions (viz., competition among interpersonal influences) and neglects a discussion of the necessary internal agentic capabilities for individual autonomy. The paper argues that a more intricate discussion of decision autonomy leads to a twin concern for outcome and process freedom in normative economics. Outcome freedom allows individuals to satisfy their evolving preferences and process freedom enables them to critically reflect upon their preferences and surroundings.
摘要:本文首先从行为经济学的观点出发，认为偏好是内生的，即不稳定的、依赖于环境的、对适应过程开放的。然后，它提出，在一个由具有内生偏好的人组成的世界里，福利分析和规范经济学是否仍然是可能的。它特别关注了维克多·范伯格(Viktor Vanberg)和卡尔·克里斯蒂安·冯(Carl Christian von) Weizsäcker最近的提议。在强调制度视角方面，两者都可以被视为现代自由主义的支持者，并且都声称他们的方法可以以比传统福利经济学思维框架内的方法更连贯的方式处理内生偏好问题。本文认为，范伯格的宪政政治经济学(CPE)方法主要强调信息提供对个体自治的重要性，低估了偏好内生性的复杂性。虽然von Weizsäcker的方法是对CPE框架的改进，但该论文认为，它过于关注外部结构条件(即人际影响之间的竞争)，而忽略了对个人自治所需的内部代理能力的讨论。本文认为，对决策自主性的更复杂的讨论导致了规范经济学对结果和过程自由的双重关注。结果自由允许个人满足他们不断变化的偏好，过程自由使他们能够批判性地反思他们的偏好和环境。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1007/s10602-023-09416-x
Markus Schulze
{"title":"Comment on \"The case for minimax‑TD\"","authors":"Markus Schulze","doi":"10.1007/s10602-023-09416-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-023-09416-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44897,"journal":{"name":"Constitutional Political Economy","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135734136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1007/s10602-023-09415-y
Markus Schulze
{"title":"Comment on “The best Condorcet‑compatible election method: Ranked Pairs”","authors":"Markus Schulze","doi":"10.1007/s10602-023-09415-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-023-09415-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44897,"journal":{"name":"Constitutional Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42894664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1007/s10602-023-09412-1
J. Warren
{"title":"How the structure of legal authority affects political inequality","authors":"J. Warren","doi":"10.1007/s10602-023-09412-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-023-09412-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44897,"journal":{"name":"Constitutional Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44075069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1007/s10602-023-09414-z
M. Cristina Molinari
{"title":"Much ado about nothing: voting in sixteenth-century Republic of Genoa","authors":"M. Cristina Molinari","doi":"10.1007/s10602-023-09414-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-023-09414-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44897,"journal":{"name":"Constitutional Political Economy","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135214676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-06DOI: 10.1007/s10602-023-09413-0
Daniel Sánchez-Piñol Yulee
{"title":"Checkmate: What was a King's worth in nineteenth-century Latin America?","authors":"Daniel Sánchez-Piñol Yulee","doi":"10.1007/s10602-023-09413-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-023-09413-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44897,"journal":{"name":"Constitutional Political Economy","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136042557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-21DOI: 10.1007/s10602-023-09411-2
Tim Krieger, Daniel Nientiedt
The economic tradition of ordoliberalism, understood as the theoretical and policy ideas of the Freiburg School, emerged in 1930s and 1940s Germany. In the years thereafter, it was quickly superseded by Keynesianism and other theories imported from the English-speaking world. The crisis in Keynesian economics in the mid-1970s led to what has been described as a “renaissance of ordoliberal reasoning” (Gebhard Kirchgässner) during the late 1970s and the 1980s. The present paper describes this development in detail and shows how it affected the academic discourse and, more indirectly, policymaking. In academic economics, ordoliberal concepts were used to inform debates about pressing issues of the day such as unemployment, social security reform, competition policy, the provision of public goods, and European integration. There was, however, no consensus on the methodological question of whether ordoliberalism could be fully integrated into international research programs such as the new institutional economics or constitutional economics. The paper argues that the renaissance of ordoliberalism failed to have a lasting impact on German academic economics and discusses possible implications of this finding for the future of the ordoliberal research agenda.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-15DOI: 10.1007/s10602-023-09409-w
Siobhain Lash
{"title":"Civic associations and polycentric approaches to environmental justice in Louisiana","authors":"Siobhain Lash","doi":"10.1007/s10602-023-09409-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-023-09409-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44897,"journal":{"name":"Constitutional Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49629147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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