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Political Institutions: Democracy and Social Choice. By Josep M. Colomer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 266p. $45.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2004

John M. Carey
John M. Carey
Affiliation:
Washington University in St. Louis
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Josep M. Colomer's new book is a happy marriage of social choice theory with comparative politics. The book serves simultaneously as a primer to social choice and its empirical applications, as a theory of the evolution of political institutions, and as a normative argument in favor of inclusive, complex, and nonmajoritarian decision rules in democracies. On all these counts, Political Institutions is well worth reading, and including on syllabi.

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2003 , pp. 205 - 206
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2003 by the American Political Science Association

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