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Why one would accept Voting Theory for Democracy and reject the Penrose Square Root Weights
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Ministers. When we compare the SDE letter with Colignatus (2001, 2007b) “Voting theory for democracy” (VTFD) then we find that … SDE does not fit voting theory for democracy. Inspection of the material upon which the SDE letter is based also shows a …
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In a democracy, Bayrou would have won. Application of the Borda Fixed Point method to the 2007 French presidential elections
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
current practice of having direct popular elections using systems that have originated in history is inoptimal and actually … 2007 French presidential elections. Under the currently and historically grown system of run-off plurality Sarkozy got …
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The performance of four possible rules for selecting the Prime Minister after the Dutch Parliamentary elections of June 2010
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Economic policy depends not only on national elections but also on coalition bargaining strategies. In coalition … represent the nation and to be there for all citizens, it would enhance democracy and likely be optimal if the potential Prime … is evaluated using the results of the 2010 Dutch Parliamentary elections. The impossibility theorem by Kenneth Arrow …
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Single vote multiple seats elections. Didactics of district versus proportional representation, using the examples of the United Kingdom and The Netherlands
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
seats elections that rely on a single vote such as common elections for Parliament or the U.S. Congress. The didactics … want more districts, the examples of the UK 2010 and Dutch 2006 general elections are developed in some detail. Subordinate … takes care of the latter). For a coalition formed after the elections there is the more complex threshold of a "coalition …
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The performance of four possible rules for selecting the Prime Minister after the Dutch Parliamentary elections of September 2012
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Economic policy depends not only on national elections but also on coalition bargaining strategies. In coalition … represent the nation and to be there for all citizens, it would enhance democracy and likely be optimal if the potential Prime … is evaluated using the results of the 2012 Dutch Parliamentary elections. The impossibility theorem by Kenneth Arrow …
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The Simpsons: Public Choice in the Tradition of Swift and Orwell
Considine, John - In: Journal of Economic Education 37 (2006) 2, pp. 217-228
The author disagrees with Homer Simpson who claims that “…cartoons don’t have any deep meaning. They’re just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh.†He argues that The Simpsons have a deep meaning in the same way as the works of Jonathan Swift and George...
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Simplicity and Explanation in the Economic Theory (Sencillez y Explicación en la Teoría Económica) (Spanish)
Estrada, Fernando - 2010
The present paper, following the philosophical work of Robert Nozick, intends to develop the approach of simplicity in the economic investigation. This purpose contributes to structure a heuristic for projects of investigation that can serve like mark of discussion of grade projects in the...
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The economic analysis of populism a selective review of the literature
Ocampo, Emilio - 2019
Although the application of the conceptual and analytical framework of economics to the study of populism is still in its infancy, great advances have been made in recent years. This paper reviews some key contributions behind this progress. When analyzing populism, economists face two...
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Response to a review of voting theory for democracy, in the light of the economic crisis and the role of mathematicians
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
they don’t understand democracy. In 1951 the mathematician Kenneth Arrow formulated his Impossibility Theorem in social … welfare theory and since then mathematicians have been damaging democracy. My book Voting Theory for Democracy (VTFD) tries to … save democracy and social welfare from such destruction. VTFD applies deontic logic to Arrow’s Theorem and shows that Arrow …
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Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem and the distinction between Voting and Deciding
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem in social choice finds different interpretations. Bordes-Tideman (1991) and Tideman (2006) suggest that collective rationality would be an illusion and that practical voting procedures do not tend to require completeness or transitivity. Colignatus (1990 and 2011)...
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