PUBLIC CHOICE RESEARCH CENTRE (PCRC)
The Centre utilizes the methods of microeconomics and analytic philosophy to the study of political and social life. The partners of the Centre are University of Turku and Turku School of Economics as well as University of Hamburg. The Centre specializes in the study of institutional design, decision making and policy evaluation. The evaluative, performance and outcome oriented approach is the distinctive and unifying characteristic of the Centre scholarship. The Centre consists of two large research groups with widely overlapping memberships.
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Design of decision-making institutions and policy analysis. Specific projects of this group include decision-making procedures and power measurement as well as the relationships of various game-theoretic solution concepts. Particular emphasis is laid on institutions of the European Union.
- Democratic governance. The methodological approaches resorted to include conceptual analysis, argumentation theory, computer simulations as well as experimental methods. Key subjects under scrutiny in this group are deliberative democracy, referendum institutions and consensus reaching procedures.
Latest news
- 01.02.2012 11:00 Preliminary program of the PCRC seminar, Spring 2012
- 18.01.2012 15:39 A reminder: Conference on Deliberative Democracy (5.-7.6.2012, Turku)
- 18.01.2012 15:38 A reminder: The Annual Conference of the Finnish Political Science Association
- 17.01.2012 12:43 PCRC seminar program, fall 2011
On Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., room 269, Publicum
- 14.11.2011 08:31 Joint PCRC-DeCAn Workshop 15.11.
- 26.10.2011 07:51 Symposium on Priority, Equality and Utility, 13.-14.10.
- 04.10.2011 18:26 Visiting professors during the fall term: Haruo Imai and Manfred Holler
- 30.08.2011 17:16 A course on Law & Economics by prof. Manfred Holler, 12.-21.9.
- 23.08.2011 14:35 Summer School on Bargaining Theory and Applications held in Turku
- 10.08.2011 12:17 PCRC hosts a Summer School on Bargaining Theory and Applications, 15.-19.8.2011