The purpose of this paper is to analyse the status that the concept of merit goods (as first stated by Musgrave in The Theory of Public Finance) has/should have in Rawls's theory. We first examine Rawls's position regarding this issue in A Theory of Justice. Next, we claim that the attitude of...

The purpose of this article is to introduce a Cartesian product structure into the social choice theoretical framework and to examine if new possibility results to Gibbard’s and Sen’s paradoxes can be developed thanks to it. We believe that a Cartesian product structure is a pertinent way to...

The aim of this paper is to propose a picture of French political supply in 2007 as perceived by voters, with no a priori ideas regarding the relevant political dimensions. Our study is based on experimental data collected during the French presidential elections on April 22nd, 2007. Two...

This paper develops two arguments which question the validity of this distinction between the transcendental and the comparative approaches proposed by Sen in his last book, The Idea of Justice [2009]. Our first argument discusses Sen?s use of the concept of impartial spectator developed by...

We answer here to François Allisson?s and Nicolas Brisset?s comment on our article « Approval Voting, Evaluation Voting : An Experiment during the 2012 French Presidential Election » published in 2013 in the Revue économique (n?64). We develop five arguments which enable to qualify their...

During the first round of the French Presidential election of April 22nd, 2012, voters of three French municipalities were invited to test approval voting and three types of evaluation voting. This paper presents the main results of that experiment. After correction of the participation and...

The purpose of this paper is to stress the common characteristics of Hegelian and Rawlsian thoughts. It is shown that Hegel and Rawls have similar objectives, since they both attempt to determine the possibility condition of the reconciliation of the reasonable and the rational, of the universal...