Review 4: On Voting by Gordon Tullock (1998)
Reviewed by:
Jones, E.T.,
University of Missouri, St Louis,
Choice, Vol. 36, No. 1 (September 1998)
"Public choice – applying economic reasoning to collective issues such as democratic decision making – has emerged as a major paradigm during the past three decades. Along with a few others, most notably Karl Arrow and James Buchanan, Tullock built the intellectual bridge between economics and political science, no minor feat in the silo-shaped world of academic disciplines. Written in the twilight of his career, this book is a chatty journey down the road of applying public choice thinking to voting systems with interesting detours for historical and contemporary asides. No new ground is broken, and the result is a rather pricey and dilatory exposition for students."
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