Constitutional moments in Eastern Europe and subjectivist political economy

Abstract

Constitutional moments, Epistemic communities, Institutions, Public choice, Rational-choice, Transition economies, A12, B53, D78, D8, P3, P16, P48,

Economic and Political Solutions to Social Problems: The Case of Second-hand Smoke in Enclosed Public Places

“…Although it may be accepted that private markets are an efficient means of providing certain goods and services, it is nevertheless believed that such an 'autistic' mechanism is unlikely to be adept at fostering the inter-subjective learning necessary to the discovery of common solutions to social problems. between Austrian and public choice approaches (Ikeda, 2003), there are also sufficient similarities to facilitate the broadly unified approach pursued in this and other work (Boettke and Lopez, 2002;Boettke, Coyne and Leeson, 2007;Buchanan and Vanberg, 2002;Evans, 2009). …”

The Future of Democratic Reform in Turkey: Constitutional Moment or Constitutional Process?

“…Different clusters of society should be engaged in the debate through creative processes, including civil society participation and direct democracy methods such as citizens’ initiatives (Wiener and Della Sala 1997). Epistemic communities need to partake by injecting ‘ideas’ that would give a relatively non-political context to the debate, contributing to the release of tensions between opposing groups (Evans 2009). It has also been argued that international law provides individuals with a right to participate in constitution-making, even though this emerging right currently lacks legal teeth (Hart 2003).…”