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Social mobility and stability of democracy : re-evaluating De Tocqueville
Acemoglu, Daron; Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - 2016
An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy: when … force making democracy less stable in societies with high social mobility: when the median voter expects to move up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491901
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Implementing Direct Democracy Via Representation
Correa-Lopera, Guadalupe - 2021
will of the majority (often defined as “people” by populist movements) and support direct democracy as the only political … winner of an electoral competition coincides with the one that citizens would choose by means of direct democracy. We find … fulfilled, the equivalence between direct democracy and representative democracy ceases to exist and disaffection in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215422
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Approval Voting & Majority Judgement in Weighted Representative Democracy
Soh Voutsa, Arnold Cedrick - 2021
Pivato and Soh [Pivato, M., Soh, A., 2020. Weighted representative democracy. Journal of Mathematical Economics 88 …, the decisions made by the legislature will be the same as the decisions that would have been reached by a direct democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247150
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On the possibility of democracy and rational collective choice
Hillinger, Claude - 2004
The paper challenges the "orthodox doctrine" of collective choice theory according to which Arrow's "general possibility theorem" precludes rational decision procedures generally and implies that in particular all voting procedures must be flawed. I point out that all voting procedures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440457
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The Role of Direct Democracy and Federalism in Local Power
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Alienation to politics weakens political competition and can undermine the acceptance and legitimacy of democracy as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068720
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On the Possibility of Democracy and Rational Collective Choice
Hillinger, Claude - 2004
The paper challenges the 'orthodox doctrine' of collective choice theory according to which Arrow's 'general possibility theorem' precludes rational decision procedures generally and implies that in particular all voting procedures must be flawed. I point out that all voting procedures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068955
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Democracy with group identity
Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015 - 25 March-2015 final
Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has … therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role … or replacement of local government because of disfunctionality. Our general contribution is to show how democracy can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498619
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Democracy with group identity
Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has … therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role … or replacement of local government because of disfunctionality. Our general contribution is to show how democracy can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494789
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War and Democracy
Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2021
This paper presents a general equilibrium model of conflict based on a world populated by representative democracies. At the individual state level, when information regarding a leader?s ability to defend the state against unavoidable conflict is valuable to voters, an incumbent leader seeking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320945
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422534