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Analytic radicalism

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Brennan and Hamlin provide a normative justification for dispositional conservatism based on the concave value functions which give rise to quasi-risk aversion. This note modifies this argument for “analytic conservatism” by allowing jurisdictional exit in response to institutional decline. By providing a welfare floor which limits the cost of failure, exit reverses the normative implications of Brennan and Hamlin’s argument, making risk-neutral agents quasi-risk seeking and justifying a radical disposition to reform under some circumstances. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

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  • Brad Taylor, 2013. "Analytic radicalism," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 24(2), pages 166-172, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:copoec:v:24:y:2013:i:2:p:166-172
    DOI: 10.1007/s10602-013-9134-y
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    1. Michael Brooks, 2015. "Analytic conservatism and analytic radicalism: Of understated distinctions and other analytical things," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 26(4), pages 442-454, December.

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    Keywords

    Conservatism; Radicalism; Tiebout competition; Exit; Risk preference; Constitutional political economy; D61; D81; H10;
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    JEL classification:

    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General

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