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Gerrymander-proof representative democracies
International Journal of Game Theory, 2011This article is devoted to the analysis of electoral systems involving two step procedures. It appears that designers are able to manipulate the result of these type of elections by gerrymandering, except in a very few cases. When imposing an unanimity condition on every jurisdiction's voting rule, it is shown that, for any finite number of candidates,
Merlin, Vincent, Bervoets, Sebastian
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Political blogs and representative democracy
Information Polity, 2008Representative democracy faces profound problems. Electoral turnout has declined to such an extent that the legitimacy of the mandate to govern is drawn into question [19, p. 33]. This problem is exacerbated and reinforced by a feeling of disconnection and distrust between the governed and the governors and a perception that voting and other forms of ...
Coleman, Stephen, Wright, Scott
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Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies
2023The familiar problems of democratic capitalism have given way to a deep crisis challenging the basic forms of governance introduced around the late 18th century and then gradually expanded and developed until the late 20th century. Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies argues that we are in urgent need of normative ...
Veit Bader, Marcel Maussen
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2016
This chapter examines the efforts to create a republican holiday in each state. Although republicans in Germany were never able to declare an official state holiday, they managed to stage a de facto republican celebration that included Germans from different political, social, and religious backgrounds.
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This chapter examines the efforts to create a republican holiday in each state. Although republicans in Germany were never able to declare an official state holiday, they managed to stage a de facto republican celebration that included Germans from different political, social, and religious backgrounds.
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Lobbying and Welfare in a Representative Democracy
The Review of Economic Studies, 2001zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Besley, Timothy, Coate, Stephen
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Vote Swapping in Representative Democracy
2015We investigate group manipulation by vote exchange in two-tiers elections, where voters are first distributed into districts, each with one delegate. Delegates’ preferences result from aggregating voters’ preferences district-wise by means of some aggregation rule. Final outcomes are sets of alternatives obtained by applying a social choice function to
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Representative Democracy and the Populist Temptation
2011My topic sounds rather conventional in terms of a traditional institutional approach. But the ‘enlightened neo-institutionalists’ of our days came back to the old controversies of the late 1940s when in the United States a debate was waged whether one should introduce a parliamentary system in the USA.
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