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I hope Fred wouldn't mind me also pointing to another (more substantial) interesting piece by him: -- Fred Foldvary, The Completely Decentralized City: The Case for Benefits Based Public Finance, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 60 No. 1 Pg. 403, 01/01/2001 ABSTRACT. An alternative to centralized top-down city governance is a multi-level bottom-up structure based on small neighborhood contractual communities. This paper analyzes the voting rules and public finances of decentralized, contractual urban governance and the likely outcome of such a constitutional structure, substantially reduced transfer seeking or rent seeking. -- At least at first glance, Fred's interesting proposals actually are surprisingly like those proposed by Gus diZerega in his very thought provoking (and, IMO, very Hayekian) book: Persuasion, Power and Polity: A Theory of Democratic Self-Organization, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000. He makes a persuasive case for a contractual federalism of citizens' cooperatives. As he pointed out during the recently concluded Hayek-L seminar on the book, the book was published almost twenty years after it was ready for publishing -- as a 1983 Berkeley Phd. But I would highly recommend it to anybody who's interested in instituting relatively non-coercive democratic institutions and a non-coervice society in general. Chirag Kasbekar The Information Comany Pvt. Ltd. New Bombay, India The real problem is not how to get money out of politics but how to get politics out of money. Alex For my analysis of how to do this, see Recalculating Consent at: http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/fest/files/foldvary.htm Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The real problem is not how to get money out of politics but how to get politics out of money. Alex For my analysis of how to do this, see Recalculating Consent at: http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/fest/files/foldvary.htm Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
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(In response to Gustavo) The real problem is not how to get money out of politics but how to get politics out of money. Alex -- Dr. Alexander Tabarrok Vice President and Director of Research The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA, 94621-1428 Tel. 510-632-1366, FAX: 510-568-6040 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The comment below..."It was difficult to establish a rational relationship between the Enron bankruptcy and campaign finance reform..." I don't think can be said just y yet. There has not been a direct relationshipat the top, but I thinksome direct relationship with specific conus and overseas deals that Enron was involved with that involved regulators or government departments will come out.More will come out on these as the bankruptcy courts go through the material and the government is stuck with bills. One specific is the trash collection in Conn...did not watch the total new show, but the price is going up. Who paid who will come out and campaign finance will be in it at some point. The government personnel who approved those deals will indicated how they were influenced by phone calls from particular congressional staffs...I predict at least three of these will come out and snag some congressman The other area is the oversight of audit firms. Some businesses have come out and so stated that they are sick of the practice of campaign finance. I think business in some areas, especially those that don't align with one side or the other and thus find themselves giving to everyone just to be in the game, would like to be saved from the hole that they have dug. When issues like ENRON hit, the business men just look stupid and when enough of them get on CSPAN they figure out from a personal point of view it is not worth it. I legislation is getting business support as long as it is fair to everyone...including the unions and other special interests. With this business support, I think the game will shift to something else. It will be interesting how the wind will shift, especially with term limits continuing to be pursued. john driessnack [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/02 10:09AM Enron. The Enron affair hit Washington and provided an window ofopportunity for McCain and company. It was difficult to establish a rationalrelationship between the Enron bankruptcy and campaign finance reform, butthat did not matter. Politics is often irrational especially when issuesinvolve strong elements of a moral narrative. The supporters ofShays-Meehan said that the vote would determine whether a member of Congresswas for Enron or for the people.
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Campaign financing regulations inevitably protect incumbents - incumbents already have huge advantages so challengers need relatively more money to compete, thus campaign finance laws raise rival's costs. Alex -- Dr. Alexander Tabarrok Vice President and Director of Research The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA, 94621-1428 Tel. 510-632-1366, FAX: 510-568-6040 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hypothesis: John McCain. Campaing reform has been a favorite to talk about but not to pass for many years. I think that when you had a charismatic cadidate adopt an issue, it can really change things. I bet a lot of congressmen saw little John McCains in their night mares if they opposed campign reform one more time. Fabio On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Armchairs, What can legislators possibly aim at when changing campaign finance laws? What determined the 70s wave of campaign finance reforms... what changed in the meantime, and why the issue regained interest again? I know that contributors intentions are also a bit puzzling, but how can one explain the rationality of legislators limiting their own funding abilities? -ja
