Democratic elections look very much like a contest where voters have to compare the candidates according to an ordinal ranking. Nevertheless, the theory of tournaments has not yet been applied to Political Economics. Therefore, we deploy tournament models to analyse elections. The main...

Democratic elections look very much like a contest where voters have to compare the candidates according to an ordinal ranking. Nevertheless, the theory of tournaments has not yet been applied to Political Economics. Therefore, we deploy tournament models to analyse elections. The main...

"Service public: Weniger Staat - mehr privat" - so lautet der Titel der neusten Publikation des liechtensteinischen Think Tanks "Zukunft.li". Swiss Economics hat die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen für diese Publikation erarbeitet. Sie liefert in einem ersten Teil die theoretsichen Grundlagen zu...