Voting and Nonlinear Taxes in a Stylized Representative Democracy [PDF]
We derive median-voter results and study the shape of redistributional taxes when voters elect a candidate who imposes taxes to maximize own utility. Under general conditions, a median-productivity candidate is a Condorcet winner.
Charles Stuart, Henning Bohn
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Book review: The end of representativepolitics by Simon Tormey [PDF]
, 2015 In The End of Representative Politics, Simon Tormey challenges the assumption that politics and democracy are ‘dead’, blighted by chronic distrust of the political class and undermined by the perceived failure of representative democracy to secure social
Dadgar, Ali
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Participatory Democracy as a Space of Political Struggle
Управленческое консультирование, 2018 The article describes the process of formation of representative democracy as a specific framework within which generated conditions for certain forms of political struggle. The political struggle is an essential attribute of parlamentarism. It is not an
Andrey Anatolevich Zaikin
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Why Are Representative Democracies Fiscally Irresponsible?
, 1993 V. V. Chari, Harold L. Cole
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A Model of Participatory Democracy: Understanding the Case of Porto Alegre [PDF]
Participatory Democracy is a process of collective decision making that combines elements from both Direct and Representative Democracy: Citizens have the ultimate power to decide on policy and politicians assume the role of policy implementation.
Enriqueta Aragones +1 more
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The Impact of Referendums on the Centralisation of Public Goods Provision: A Political Economy Approach [PDF]
, 2007 The paper compares decision-making on the centralisation of public goods provision in the presence of regional externalities under representative and direct democratic institutions.
Feld, Lars +2 more
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Social Polarization and Partisan Voting in Representative Democracies [PDF]
, 2018 Dominik Duell, Justin Valasek
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Representative Democracy and Marginal Rate Progressive Income Taxation [PDF]
This paper develops a political economy model that is consistent with the fact that democracies have a preference for increasing marginal tax rates on income.
Carbonell, O., Klor, E.
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Divided Culture and Constitutional Tensions: Brexit and the Collision of Direct and Representative Democracy [PDF]
, 2019 Andrew Blick, Brian Salter
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Tying the politicians’ hands: The optimal limits to representative democracy [PDF]
, 2019 Didier Laussel, Ngo Van Long
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