Article: Public Interest

Public Interest

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PUBLIC CHOICE THEORY

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While there is no one public interest, most political philosophers credit some notion of collective welfare. Examples include French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau s general will, U.S. president James Madison s collective good, or English philosopher Jeremy Bentham s greatest good for the greatest number. In debate, public interest is often invoked when a faction s influence harms the larger group. As James Madison defined it in Federalist Paper number 10, the tenth Federalist Paper in a series of published articles arguing for the ...

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