Review 1: On Voting by Gordon Tullock (1998)
Reviewed by:
Jurgen G. Backhaus,
Maastricht University,
The Netherlands
"On Voting is an extremely important contribution to public choice analysis, and in fact a contribution that was long overdue. While public choice analysis has for the most part focused on analyzing particular voting schemes, and Gordon Tullock has made very important contributions in this area as well, this book addresses the question lying behind such an analysis of particular voting structures. He is interested in looking at what it means if one decides a question by vote instead of taking the decision in some other way. He brings to this issue a lifetime of experience and thought in public choice analysis and arrives at many surprising insights."
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