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Pairwise Justifiable Changes in Collective Choices

Barberà, Salvador; Berga, Dolors; Moreno, Bernardo; … - 2021

Consider the following principle regarding the performance of collective choice rules. "If a rule selects alternative x in situation 1, and alternative y in situation 2, there must be an alternative z, and some member of society whose appreciation of z relative to x has increased when going from...

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Zur Manipulierbarkeit der Allokation öffentlicher Güter : theoretische Analyse und Simulationsergebnisse

Lindner, Tobias - 2011

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Is voting really habit-forming and transformative? : long-run effects of earlier eligibility on turnout and political involvement from the UK

Jessen, Jonas; Kühnle, Daniel; Wagner, Markus - 2021

Habit formation theory and the transformative voting hypothesis both imply that voting has downstream consequences for …

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Inequality, coalitions and collective action

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Singh, Nirvikar - 2004

In a model where cooperation is beneficial, but subject to cheating, and is supported by trigger strategy punishments in a repeated game, we explore the relationship between the nature of cooperation (size and composition of coalitions) and underlying inequality in the distribution of private...

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The Value/Fact Distinction : Coase's Theorem Unifies Normative and Positive Economics

Tipler, Frank J. - 2007

I show that in a true Coasean world - a world with no transaction costs - there would be no disagreement on moral questions. There would be no disagreement on what the appropriate distribution of income should be. There would be no disagreement on the question of capital punishment or abortion....

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Measuring Maximizing Judges : Empirical Legal Studies, Public Choice Theory, and Judicial Behavior

Shepherd, Joanna - 2012

In this brief Article, I explore the growing empirical evidence in support of the public choice model of judicial decision making. Although legal scholars have traditionally been reluctant to engage in a critical inquiry into the role of judicial self-interest on judicial behavior, recent...

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Political Economy of Criminal Procedure

Hylton, Keith N.; Khanna, Vikramaditya S. - 2008

This chapter presents a public choice theory of criminal procedure. The core idea is that criminal procedure is best …

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The Equivalence of Political and Economic Allocations

Monateri, P. G. - 2015

The aim of this paper is to analyse what does it happen when we introduce “violence”, threats and self-help, into economic models. This will be done considering the alternative between a market or a political allocation. The conclusions will be: a) That under standard assumptions there is no...

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Lost in Translation : Social Choice Theory is Misapplied Against Legislative Intent

Lupia, Arthur; McCubbins, Mathew D. - 2007

Several prominent scholars use results from social choice theory to conclude that legislative intent is meaningless. We … disagree. We support our argument by showing that the conclusions in question are based on misapplications of the theory. Some … social choice theory to questions of legislative intent entails accepting assumptions such as legislators are omniscient and …

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Social Choice Optimization : (NP

Garcia-Camino, Andres - 2022

Social choice is the theory about collective decision towards social welfare starting from individual opinions …, following my Open Standardization and Open Integration Theory (in refinement process) put in practice in my dissertation, the …

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