Democratic Devices and Desires

Why it’s on the list: A public-choice treatment of constitutional design: what institutions should look like once you stop assuming either knaves or saints and start asking which motivations they select for.

Where I heard about it

• @SpencrGreenberg’s thread — a reply to his question “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” in the thread, June 2025.

Connections

• A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
• Democracy · Institutions · Voting · Economics — where this sits in the corpus.