Donald A Wittman

Biographic Data

ID1293678
NAMEDonald A Wittman
GIVEN NAMESDonald A
FAMILY NAMEWittman
SIGNATUREWITTMAN D A
AFFILIATIONSEconomics, University of California, Santa Cruz
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS83
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX1

  • Overview Of Political Economy: The Reach Of Political Economy

    Barry R Weingast, Donald Wittman et al.CHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of political…2013

    This introductory article discusses a set of issues and approaches that have provided interesting results, and are most likely to prompt a number of researches in the next few years. It first looks at the research conducted on endogenous institutions, before focusing on legislative institutions. It looks at the revelation and aggregation of information, where the discussion is focused on the voters, particularly the voters who are uninformed in o…

  • The Reach of Political Economy

    Barry R Weingast, Donald Wittman et al.CHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of political…2009

    This introductory article discusses a set of issues and approaches that have provided interesting results, and are most likely to prompt a number of researches in the next few years. It first looks at the research conducted on endogenous institutions, before focusing on legislative institutions. It looks at the revelation and aggregation of information, where the discussion is focused on the voters, particularly the voters who are uninformed in o…

  • The Oxford handbook of political economy

    Barry R Weingast, Donald A WittmanBOOKThe Oxford handbook of political…2006

    The Handbook views political economy as a set of methodologies, typically associated with economies, but now part and parcel of political science itself, that are used to explain political and economic phenomena at both the micro and macro level.

  • The Oxford handbook of political economy

    Donald A Wittman, Barry R WeingastBOOKThe Oxford handbook of political…2006

  • Parties as Utility Maximizers

    Open AccessDonald Wittman, Donald A WittmanARTICLEAmerican Political Science Review1973Cited by: 83References: 21

    The article introduces two models of political party decision making. Both models assume that the parties are solely interested in policy and that winning the election is just a means to that end. In one, the parties are competitive, while in the other the parties collude. The main result, in either case, is that the parties tend to be unresponsive to the interests of the voters.The models are analyzed in an intransitive case (an election concern…