EFFICIENCY AND ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION: THE CASE OF ELECTORAL SYSTEMS IN PERU AND ECUADOR

Law is susceptible to being analysed in an interdisciplinary manner; this paper will refer to the conduct of public administration from an economic perspective.1 The economic analysis will be under the premise that the individuals incorporated into various levels of government – policymakers, civil servants and administrators – make decisions according to the incentives that they face and that judicial norms are not only variables which, within the context of these decisions, grant benefits, but which can also bring about negative externalities. Based on this outline, the public administration efficiently achieves its public objectives while ensuring that the costs of producing and executing these norms are as low as possible. These costs are not seen simply as monetary elements but rather in terms of matter, time, and resources of all types, not only for the administrators but also for the organs, the public civil servants.