Elizabeth A Morrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 4124303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Morrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrow |
| SIGNATURE | MORROW E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6544-3409 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Alain Marciano: James Buchanan and peaceful cooperation
Nozick and the invisible hand of racial injustice
Contemporary western democracies like the United States and the United Kingdom bear the imprint of historical racial injustice – slavery, segregation, discrimination, and mistreatment and neglect by public authorities. Libertarian political theory might appear well placed to contribute to debates about attaining racial justice, given its emphasis on individual rights and strict limits on state action, but Charles Mills claimed libertarians largel…
Constitutional artisans: James Buchanan and Vincent Ostrom on artifactual man, the constitutional attitude, and the political economy of constitutional design
This paper examines the relationship between the work of James Buchanan and Vincent Ostrom. It adds to existing work by providing a comprehensive analysis of Buchanan’s and Ostrom’s changing views about how the ‘logical foundations of constitutional democracy’ should be conceptualised. The paper traces how in the 1960s and 1970s Ostrom took inspiration from the rational choice analysis of constitutional democracy in Buchanan and Tullock’s The Cal…
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: The case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade
Was the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade a triumph of altruism over pecuniary self-interest? Analysis of qualitative data reveals the importance of self-interested motives underlying this ostensibly other-regarding reform. The abolitionists worked to alleviate the suffering of enslaved Africans, but their campaign faced a collective action problem that was solved by the supply of the private benefits of status, esteem, and possibl…
Welfare without rent seeking? Buchanan’s demogrant proposal and the possibility of a constitutional welfare state
In a number of works, James M. Buchanan set out a proposal for a ‘demogrant’—a form of universal basic income that applied the principles of generality and non discrimination to the tax and the transfer sides of the scheme and was to be implemented as a constitutional rule outside the realm of day-to-day politics. The demogrant has received surprisingly little scholarly attention, but this article locates it in Buchanan’s broader constitutional p…
Buchanan at the American Founding: The constitutional political economy of a republic of equals and unequals
James M. Buchanan cited the American Founding as an important inspiration for his constitutional vision. Buchanan and the Founders shared a belief in the moral equality of persons and a conviction that social order could be built upon a nexus of contract and exchange. The early revolutionaries were inspired by the classical republican ideal of impartial government serving the public interest, but Buchanan and the later Founders did not believe th…
The Rise and Fall of the English Defence League: Self-Governance, Marginal Members and the Far Right
What determines the success or failure of far-right organisations? This article uses new qualitative data to explain the sudden rise and subsequent decline of the English Defence League, an anti-Islamic, street protest organisation established in the UK in 2009. We explain the rise and fall of the English Defence League through the lens of the theory of collective action to show that the English Defence League initially motivated activism by supp…
Developing Immersive Simulations: The Potential of Theater in Teaching and Learning in Political Studies
Innovative teachers of political science have frequently moved beyond the confines of conventional teaching formats to better engage students with the demands of the discipline. In particular, the use of simulations has been proposed as an alternative to passive, lecture-based techniques, and a growing literature examines their value and efficacy. This article contributes to the literature by describing the development of a simulation that draws …
Violence, Self-Worth, Solidarity and Stigma: How a Dissident, Far-Right Group Solves the Collective Action Problem
How do dissident, far-right groups overcome the collective action problem inherent to political organisation in order to recruit sufficient activists willing to bear the costs of participation and not free-ride on the participation of others? An original ethnographic study of the UK anti-Islamic street protest organisation, the English Defence League, shows that it solved the collective action problem by supplying selective incentives to members …
Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan: On Public Life, Chile, and the Relationship between Liberty and Democracy
This article places recent evidence of Hayek's public defense of the Pinochet regime in the context of the work of the other great twentieth-century classical liberal economists, Milton Friedman and James M. Buchanan. Hayek's view that liberty was only instrumentally valuable is contrasted with Buchanan's account of liberty situated in the notion of the inviolable individual. It is argued that Hayek's theory left him with no basis on which to dem…
Exchange, unanimity and consent: A defence of the public choice account of power
An enduring criticism of public choice theory is that it does not adequately address the question of power in contemporary capitalist societies. In particular it is argued that the exchange paradigm and the principle of unanimity lead to a conservative defence of the unequal and unjust status quo of such societies. These criticisms are often presented as unanswered and unanswerable. Indeed, public choice scholars have tended to pursue their own r…
Hayek's Slippery Slope, the Stability of the Mixed Economy and the Dynamics of Rent Seeking
F. A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom continues to provoke intense scholarly debate focused on the validity of Hayek's central claim that a mixed economy is inherently unstable and economic intervention will inexorably lead to totalitarianism if pursued for a sustained period. This article presents empirical evidence which shows conclusively that it is the mixed economy that has proved remarkably stable, whereas laissez-faire and totalitarian regimes…
The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century. This Companion presents a balanced and comprehensive assessment of Nozick's contribution to political philosophy. In engaging and accessible chapters, the contributors analyse No…
Economic and Political Solutions to Social Problems: The Case of Second-hand Smoke in Enclosed Public Places
This article utilises a case study of the problem of second-hand smoke in enclosed public places to examine economic and political solutions to social problems. The responses of economic actors to this problem are examined via review of a number of pre-existing case studies of private arrangements in bars and restaurants prior to the introduction of smoking bans. The responses of political actors are examined via a study of the legislative proces…
The neo-liberal state
Bonding and bridging: Social capital and the communitarian critique of liberal markets
The European Democratic Deficit, the Market and the Public Space: A Classical Liberal Critique
This article argues that attempts to utilize a Habermasian conception of the public space as a remedy for the democratic deficit deemed to be inherent within the political institutions of the European Union (EU) are unlikely to prove successful. It is argued that the instrumental goal demanded of the public space is contrary to the communicative rationality intrinsic to the Habermasian model. Moreover, the Habermasian conception of the public spa…
Community Politics, Representation and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy
Community Politics has been a political strategy of the Liberal Party, now the Liberal Democrats, since 1970. It involves a critique of traditional representational relationships and argues for a participatory democracy based upon deliberation to build consensus out of competing interests. Whilst the associated campaigning techniques have made the third party an important force in local government, this article uses new empirical evidence to asse…
Political Recruitment and Local Representation: The Case of Liberal Democrat Councillors
A case study of Liberal Democrat councillors is used to investigate models of local political recruitment. Quantitative survey data shows that Liberal Democrat councillors match the narrow socio-economic profile of representatives found in all modern democracies. Analysis of qualitative interview data on the recruitment of Liberal Democrat councillors suggests that while some councillors can be characterised as rational actors, judging the costs …
Is There a Liberal Alternative? Charles Kennedy and the Liberal Democrats’ Strategy
Liberalism and the Referendum in British Political Thought 1890–1914
Journal Article Liberalism and the Referendum in British Political Thought 1890–1914 Get access J. MEADOWCROFT, J. MEADOWCROFT Lincoln CollegeOxford and the Bank of England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M. W. TAYLOR M. W. TAYLOR Lincoln CollegeOxford and the Bank of England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1990,…
Violence, Self-Worth, Solidarity and Stigma: How a Dissident, Far-Right Group Solves the Collective Action Problem
How do dissident, far-right groups overcome the collective action problem inherent to political organisation in order to recruit sufficient activists willing to bear the costs of participation and not free-ride on the participation of others? An original ethnographic study of the UK anti-Islamic street protest organisation, the English Defence League, shows that it solved the collective action problem by supplying selective incentives to members …
Community Politics, Representation and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy
Community Politics has been a political strategy of the Liberal Party, now the Liberal Democrats, since 1970. It involves a critique of traditional representational relationships and argues for a participatory democracy based upon deliberation to build consensus out of competing interests. Whilst the associated campaigning techniques have made the third party an important force in local government, this article uses new empirical evidence to asse…
Hayek's Slippery Slope, the Stability of the Mixed Economy and the Dynamics of Rent Seeking
F. A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom continues to provoke intense scholarly debate focused on the validity of Hayek's central claim that a mixed economy is inherently unstable and economic intervention will inexorably lead to totalitarianism if pursued for a sustained period. This article presents empirical evidence which shows conclusively that it is the mixed economy that has proved remarkably stable, whereas laissez-faire and totalitarian regimes…
Political Recruitment and Local Representation: The Case of Liberal Democrat Councillors
A case study of Liberal Democrat councillors is used to investigate models of local political recruitment. Quantitative survey data shows that Liberal Democrat councillors match the narrow socio-economic profile of representatives found in all modern democracies. Analysis of qualitative interview data on the recruitment of Liberal Democrat councillors suggests that while some councillors can be characterised as rational actors, judging the costs …
Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan: On Public Life, Chile, and the Relationship between Liberty and Democracy
This article places recent evidence of Hayek's public defense of the Pinochet regime in the context of the work of the other great twentieth-century classical liberal economists, Milton Friedman and James M. Buchanan. Hayek's view that liberty was only instrumentally valuable is contrasted with Buchanan's account of liberty situated in the notion of the inviolable individual. It is argued that Hayek's theory left him with no basis on which to dem…
The Rise and Fall of the English Defence League: Self-Governance, Marginal Members and the Far Right
What determines the success or failure of far-right organisations? This article uses new qualitative data to explain the sudden rise and subsequent decline of the English Defence League, an anti-Islamic, street protest organisation established in the UK in 2009. We explain the rise and fall of the English Defence League through the lens of the theory of collective action to show that the English Defence League initially motivated activism by supp…
Developing Immersive Simulations: The Potential of Theater in Teaching and Learning in Political Studies
Innovative teachers of political science have frequently moved beyond the confines of conventional teaching formats to better engage students with the demands of the discipline. In particular, the use of simulations has been proposed as an alternative to passive, lecture-based techniques, and a growing literature examines their value and efficacy. This article contributes to the literature by describing the development of a simulation that draws …
Exchange, unanimity and consent: A defence of the public choice account of power
An enduring criticism of public choice theory is that it does not adequately address the question of power in contemporary capitalist societies. In particular it is argued that the exchange paradigm and the principle of unanimity lead to a conservative defence of the unequal and unjust status quo of such societies. These criticisms are often presented as unanswered and unanswerable. Indeed, public choice scholars have tended to pursue their own r…
Bonding and bridging: Social capital and the communitarian critique of liberal markets
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: The case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade
Was the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade a triumph of altruism over pecuniary self-interest? Analysis of qualitative data reveals the importance of self-interested motives underlying this ostensibly other-regarding reform. The abolitionists worked to alleviate the suffering of enslaved Africans, but their campaign faced a collective action problem that was solved by the supply of the private benefits of status, esteem, and possibl…
Buchanan at the American Founding: The constitutional political economy of a republic of equals and unequals
James M. Buchanan cited the American Founding as an important inspiration for his constitutional vision. Buchanan and the Founders shared a belief in the moral equality of persons and a conviction that social order could be built upon a nexus of contract and exchange. The early revolutionaries were inspired by the classical republican ideal of impartial government serving the public interest, but Buchanan and the later Founders did not believe th…
Liberalism and the Referendum in British Political Thought 1890–1914
Journal Article Liberalism and the Referendum in British Political Thought 1890–1914 Get access J. MEADOWCROFT, J. MEADOWCROFT Lincoln CollegeOxford and the Bank of England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M. W. TAYLOR M. W. TAYLOR Lincoln CollegeOxford and the Bank of England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1990,…
Constitutional artisans: James Buchanan and Vincent Ostrom on artifactual man, the constitutional attitude, and the political economy of constitutional design
This paper examines the relationship between the work of James Buchanan and Vincent Ostrom. It adds to existing work by providing a comprehensive analysis of Buchanan’s and Ostrom’s changing views about how the ‘logical foundations of constitutional democracy’ should be conceptualised. The paper traces how in the 1960s and 1970s Ostrom took inspiration from the rational choice analysis of constitutional democracy in Buchanan and Tullock’s The Cal…
Welfare without rent seeking? Buchanan’s demogrant proposal and the possibility of a constitutional welfare state
In a number of works, James M. Buchanan set out a proposal for a ‘demogrant’—a form of universal basic income that applied the principles of generality and non discrimination to the tax and the transfer sides of the scheme and was to be implemented as a constitutional rule outside the realm of day-to-day politics. The demogrant has received surprisingly little scholarly attention, but this article locates it in Buchanan’s broader constitutional p…
Economic and Political Solutions to Social Problems: The Case of Second-hand Smoke in Enclosed Public Places
This article utilises a case study of the problem of second-hand smoke in enclosed public places to examine economic and political solutions to social problems. The responses of economic actors to this problem are examined via review of a number of pre-existing case studies of private arrangements in bars and restaurants prior to the introduction of smoking bans. The responses of political actors are examined via a study of the legislative proces…
Liberalism and the Referendum in British Political Thought 1890–1914
Journal Article Liberalism and the Referendum in British Political Thought 1890–1914 Get access J. MEADOWCROFT, J. MEADOWCROFT Lincoln CollegeOxford and the Bank of England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M. W. TAYLOR M. W. TAYLOR Lincoln CollegeOxford and the Bank of England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1990,…
Is There a Liberal Alternative? Charles Kennedy and the Liberal Democrats’ Strategy
Community Politics, Representation and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy
Community Politics has been a political strategy of the Liberal Party, now the Liberal Democrats, since 1970. It involves a critique of traditional representational relationships and argues for a participatory democracy based upon deliberation to build consensus out of competing interests. Whilst the associated campaigning techniques have made the third party an important force in local government, this article uses new empirical evidence to asse…
Political Recruitment and Local Representation: The Case of Liberal Democrat Councillors
A case study of Liberal Democrat councillors is used to investigate models of local political recruitment. Quantitative survey data shows that Liberal Democrat councillors match the narrow socio-economic profile of representatives found in all modern democracies. Analysis of qualitative interview data on the recruitment of Liberal Democrat councillors suggests that while some councillors can be characterised as rational actors, judging the costs …
The European Democratic Deficit, the Market and the Public Space: A Classical Liberal Critique
This article argues that attempts to utilize a Habermasian conception of the public space as a remedy for the democratic deficit deemed to be inherent within the political institutions of the European Union (EU) are unlikely to prove successful. It is argued that the instrumental goal demanded of the public space is contrary to the communicative rationality intrinsic to the Habermasian model. Moreover, the Habermasian conception of the public spa…
Bonding and bridging: Social capital and the communitarian critique of liberal markets
The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century. This Companion presents a balanced and comprehensive assessment of Nozick's contribution to political philosophy. In engaging and accessible chapters, the contributors analyse No…
Economic and Political Solutions to Social Problems: The Case of Second-hand Smoke in Enclosed Public Places
This article utilises a case study of the problem of second-hand smoke in enclosed public places to examine economic and political solutions to social problems. The responses of economic actors to this problem are examined via review of a number of pre-existing case studies of private arrangements in bars and restaurants prior to the introduction of smoking bans. The responses of political actors are examined via a study of the legislative proces…
The neo-liberal state
Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan: On Public Life, Chile, and the Relationship between Liberty and Democracy
This article places recent evidence of Hayek's public defense of the Pinochet regime in the context of the work of the other great twentieth-century classical liberal economists, Milton Friedman and James M. Buchanan. Hayek's view that liberty was only instrumentally valuable is contrasted with Buchanan's account of liberty situated in the notion of the inviolable individual. It is argued that Hayek's theory left him with no basis on which to dem…
Exchange, unanimity and consent: A defence of the public choice account of power
An enduring criticism of public choice theory is that it does not adequately address the question of power in contemporary capitalist societies. In particular it is argued that the exchange paradigm and the principle of unanimity lead to a conservative defence of the unequal and unjust status quo of such societies. These criticisms are often presented as unanswered and unanswerable. Indeed, public choice scholars have tended to pursue their own r…
Hayek's Slippery Slope, the Stability of the Mixed Economy and the Dynamics of Rent Seeking
F. A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom continues to provoke intense scholarly debate focused on the validity of Hayek's central claim that a mixed economy is inherently unstable and economic intervention will inexorably lead to totalitarianism if pursued for a sustained period. This article presents empirical evidence which shows conclusively that it is the mixed economy that has proved remarkably stable, whereas laissez-faire and totalitarian regimes…
Developing Immersive Simulations: The Potential of Theater in Teaching and Learning in Political Studies
Innovative teachers of political science have frequently moved beyond the confines of conventional teaching formats to better engage students with the demands of the discipline. In particular, the use of simulations has been proposed as an alternative to passive, lecture-based techniques, and a growing literature examines their value and efficacy. This article contributes to the literature by describing the development of a simulation that draws …
Violence, Self-Worth, Solidarity and Stigma: How a Dissident, Far-Right Group Solves the Collective Action Problem
How do dissident, far-right groups overcome the collective action problem inherent to political organisation in order to recruit sufficient activists willing to bear the costs of participation and not free-ride on the participation of others? An original ethnographic study of the UK anti-Islamic street protest organisation, the English Defence League, shows that it solved the collective action problem by supplying selective incentives to members …
The Rise and Fall of the English Defence League: Self-Governance, Marginal Members and the Far Right
What determines the success or failure of far-right organisations? This article uses new qualitative data to explain the sudden rise and subsequent decline of the English Defence League, an anti-Islamic, street protest organisation established in the UK in 2009. We explain the rise and fall of the English Defence League through the lens of the theory of collective action to show that the English Defence League initially motivated activism by supp…
Welfare without rent seeking? Buchanan’s demogrant proposal and the possibility of a constitutional welfare state
In a number of works, James M. Buchanan set out a proposal for a ‘demogrant’—a form of universal basic income that applied the principles of generality and non discrimination to the tax and the transfer sides of the scheme and was to be implemented as a constitutional rule outside the realm of day-to-day politics. The demogrant has received surprisingly little scholarly attention, but this article locates it in Buchanan’s broader constitutional p…
Buchanan at the American Founding: The constitutional political economy of a republic of equals and unequals
James M. Buchanan cited the American Founding as an important inspiration for his constitutional vision. Buchanan and the Founders shared a belief in the moral equality of persons and a conviction that social order could be built upon a nexus of contract and exchange. The early revolutionaries were inspired by the classical republican ideal of impartial government serving the public interest, but Buchanan and the later Founders did not believe th…
Constitutional artisans: James Buchanan and Vincent Ostrom on artifactual man, the constitutional attitude, and the political economy of constitutional design
This paper examines the relationship between the work of James Buchanan and Vincent Ostrom. It adds to existing work by providing a comprehensive analysis of Buchanan’s and Ostrom’s changing views about how the ‘logical foundations of constitutional democracy’ should be conceptualised. The paper traces how in the 1960s and 1970s Ostrom took inspiration from the rational choice analysis of constitutional democracy in Buchanan and Tullock’s The Cal…
Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform: The case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade
Was the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade a triumph of altruism over pecuniary self-interest? Analysis of qualitative data reveals the importance of self-interested motives underlying this ostensibly other-regarding reform. The abolitionists worked to alleviate the suffering of enslaved Africans, but their campaign faced a collective action problem that was solved by the supply of the private benefits of status, esteem, and possibl…
Alain Marciano: James Buchanan and peaceful cooperation
Nozick and the invisible hand of racial injustice
Contemporary western democracies like the United States and the United Kingdom bear the imprint of historical racial injustice – slavery, segregation, discrimination, and mistreatment and neglect by public authorities. Libertarian political theory might appear well placed to contribute to debates about attaining racial justice, given its emphasis on individual rights and strict limits on state action, but Charles Mills claimed libertarians largel…
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