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An Economic Model of Representative Democracy [PDF]

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997
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T. Besley, Stephen Coate
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The Crisis of Representative Democracy

Open Democracy, 2020
This chapter discusses the crisis of democracy. While this crisis can be attributed in part to specific empirical corruptions, which are themselves likely the result of contingent external shocks, the crisis of democracy can also be traced, more ...
Hélène Landemore
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Representative Democracy

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, 2020
Kulick Andreas
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A Legitimacy Crisis of Representative Democracy

, 2017
This chapter presents the research questions and outline of the book, providing a brief review of the state of the art of legitimacy research in established democracies, and discusses the recurring theme of crisis throughout this literature since the 1960s.
J. Thomassen, C. Ham
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The Role of Judges in a Representative Democracy

Rule of Law vs Majoritarian Democracy, 2021
2. As judges, we react intuitively to cases, though Daniel Kahnemann’s book Thinking fast and slow warns us of the dangers of over-reliance on intuition. We also spend much time deliberating slowly about lawyers’ submissions and past caselaw.
Lord Mance
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The Future of Representative Democracy

West European Politics, 2012
J. Zielonka
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Social Choice in a Representative Democracy [PDF]

American Political Science Review, 1994
Citizens of a representative democracy are twice removed from legislation. First, they do not deliberate and vote directly on legislation. Rather they elect assemblies that enact such legislation in their stead. Second, and less commonly remarked, citizens do not vote directly for assemblies.
Benoit, J.P., Kornhauser, L.
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Representative Democracy as Defensible Epistocracy

American Political Science Review, 2019
Epistocratic arrangements are widely rejected because there will be reasonable disagreement about which citizens count as epistemically superior and an epistemically superior subset of citizens may be biased in ways that undermine their ability to ...
Dimitri Landa, Ryan Pevnick
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On a concept of representative democracy

Theory and Decision, 1974
Political theory distinguishes between two concepts of representative democratic decisions. Under the first concept, representatives do not decide issues as independent individuals but merely reflect the ‘will’ of their constituencies; under the second, the decisions are made by the elected representatives themselves on the basis of their independent ...
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Issues and images – new sources of inequality in current representative democracy

Equality and Representation, 2016
Right from its beginning, representative democracy was criticized for promoting inequality. Nonetheless, for many decades representative democracy has led to more equality – politically as well as socially.
W. Thaa
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