TY - BOOK ID - 84542678 TI - Modeling Politics with Economic Tools : A Critical Survey of the Literature PY - 2001 SN - 1462361196 1451994567 1281092967 1451890850 9786613776013 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Inflation KW - Labor KW - Macroeconomics KW - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines KW - History of Thought: Macroeconomics KW - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior KW - Policy Objectives KW - Policy Designs and Consistency KW - Policy Coordination KW - Price Level KW - Deflation KW - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search KW - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions KW - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data) KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Economic growth KW - Unemployment KW - Personal income KW - Unemployment rate KW - Business cycles KW - Prices KW - National accounts KW - Income KW - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84542678 AB - Whereas the economics discipline possesses a highly refined theoretical apparatus to analyze the effects of government behaviour on the economy, it has not (yet) managed to fully develop a positively formulated "economic theory of politics" that would permit the integration of the decision-making processes of voters, parties and governments with those of consumers and firms. Considerable recent advances notwithstanding, the large and heterogeneous body of literature has (so far) remained outside the economic mainstrain. The paper surveys the main approaches used to endogenize democratic elements and assesses the underlying reasons for researchers' renewed interest in this field. ER -