Author: Wagner R.E.

Source: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Volume 63, Number 1, January 2004 , pp. 55-74(20)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:

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This paper treats the development of public choice as an academic enterprise that originated at the University of Virginia and that grew to maturity at VPI. It seeks to distinguish between the particularistic and personal sources of programmatic success on the one hand, and institutional and organizational sources on the other. Only to the extent the success is institutional or organizational is there something that potentially can be duplicated through the adoption of an appropriate institutional framework. Otherwise the success is idiosyncratic, and must be attributed to the particular qualities of James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, independently of the institutional and organizational framework.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1536-7150.2004.00274.x

Publication date: 2004-01-01

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