The Constitution of RiskThe Constitution of Risk is the first book to combine constitutional theory with the theory of risk regulation. The book argues that constitutional rulemaking is best understood as a means of managing political risks. Constitutional law structures and regulates the risks that arise in and from political life, such as an executive coup or military putsch, political abuse of ideological or ethnic minorities, or corrupt self-dealing by officials. The book claims that the best way to manage political risks is an approach it calls "optimizing constitutionalism" - in contrast to the worst-case thinking that underpins "precautionary constitutionalism," a mainstay of liberal constitutional theory. Drawing on a broad range of disciplines such as decision theory, game theory, welfare economics, political science, and psychology, this book advocates constitutional rulemaking undertaken in a spirit of welfare maximization, and offers a corrective to the pervasive and frequently irrational attitude of distrust of official power that is so prominent in American constitutional history and discourse. |
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Sommario
Introduction page | 1 |
Precautionary Constitutionalism | 27 |
The Mature Position | 52 |
The Framers SelfDefeating Precautions | 91 |
On Judging in Ones Own Cause | 107 |
Second Opinions | 141 |
Political Administration and Expert | 163 |
Acknowledgments | 193 |
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | The Constitution of Risk |
| Autore | Adrian Vermeule |
| Editore | Cambridge University Press, 2014 |
| ISBN | 1107043727, 9781107043725 |
| Lunghezza | 200 pagine |
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