caa a22 4500 606168370 CHVBK 20210128100706.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11127-015-0244-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11127-015-0244-0 Mueller Dennis Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Oscar Morgenstern Platz 1, 1090, Vienna, Austria aut Public choice, social choice, and political economy [Elektronische Daten] [Dennis Mueller] Since World War II a large literature has arisen that uses the methodology of economics to examine the behavior of governments and the actors in them. Some scholars refer to their research as public choice, some as social choice, and still others as political economy. This article discusses the distinctions among these three terms. It concludes that all of the research falling under these three headings has much in common, and that people who refer to their work as public choice or political economy are essentially employing identical methodologies. Contributions to public choice, narrowly defined, are more often positive and empirical analyses of government behavior than those in social choice, narrowly defined. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Positive nationallicence Normative nationallicence Theoretical nationallicence Empirical nationallicence Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/3-4(2015-06-01), 379-387 0048-5829 163:3-4<379 2015 163 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0244-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0244-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mueller Dennis Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Oscar Morgenstern Platz 1, 1090, Vienna, Austria aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/3-4(2015-06-01), 379-387 0048-5829 163:3-4<379 2015 163 11127