Constitutional economics and public institutions : essays in honour of José Casas Pardo

Introduction / Francisco Cabrillo and Miguel A. Puchades-Navarro -- Presuppositions in the evaluation of rules / James M. Buchanan -- Buchanan, Hobbes and contractarianism : the supply of rules? / Geoffrey Brennan and Giuseppe Eusepi -- Economics governance in the European Union : a problem of legitimacy / Francisco Cabrillo and Sean Fitzpatric -- Early Spanish liberalism and constitutional political economy : the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 / Roger D. Congleton -- Reforms and decentralization : friends or foes? / Pierre Salmon -- Democracy-preserving institutions : the quasi-federal system of South Africa / Giorgio Brosio -- On Machiavelli's conspiracy paradoxes / Manfred J. Holler -- A general measure of the 'effective' number of parties in a political system / Vani K. Borooah -- Party competition and electoral turnout : Downs's calculus in a multiparty system / Juha Helin and Hannu Nurmi -- The political economy of Dutch Disease : a survey / Martin Paldam -- Higher education as private good and as quasi public good : the case of Italy / Silvia Fedeli and Francesco Forte -- The actual role of government intervention for the recovery of the Italian economy / Gian Cesare Romagnoli