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| Author: | Congleton, R. D. |
| Title: | Political efficiency and equal protection of the law |
| Journal: | Kyklos
1997 : VOL. 50:4, p. 485-505 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION HUMAN RIGHTS EQUALITY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In many settings, economic efficiency in law enforcement appears to require differential enforcement of the law. For example, as shown in the paper, crime prone populations warrant stronger sanctions than less crime prone populations if costly sanctions are to be meted out in an efficient manner. However, narrow economic analysis of efficient sanctions attributes an efficiency to modern democratic governments which can not be easily justified by analysis or experience. This paper demonstrates that constraining majority coalitions to write laws consistent with the principle of equal protection generally yields more desirable outcomes than obtained when majority coaliations are permitted to discriminate in an arbitrary manner. |
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