The purpose of this paper has been to develop a positive theory of international organization which can supplement the conventional normative theory used as a positive theory. The conventional approach draws much of its plausibility from the fact that it relies on the reasons given by the...

Public choice analysis can be helpful in predicting the course of European monetary integration and policy. The median (or decisive) voter theorem, the theory of the political business cycle and the economic theory of bureaucracy are all applicable. The purpose of this paper is to explain and...

Vito Tanzi [Tanzi, V., 2008. The future of fiscal federalism. European Journal of Political Economy 24, 705-712] makes a case for global government. This comment reconsiders the merits of global government as advocated by Tanzi.