Screen LibraryRedesigning Democracy : More Ideas for Better Rules /
Could democracy do better? This book presents a vision on optimal democracies and a set of new rules to help achieve them. The monograph follows on the author s successful book Designing Democracy from 2005 and further develops its ideas. While liberal democracies are the best systems of self-govern...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53405-3 |
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Could democracy do better? This book presents a vision on optimal democracies and a set of new rules to help achieve them. The monograph follows on the author s successful book Designing Democracy from 2005 and further develops its ideas. While liberal democracies are the best systems of self-governance for societies, they rarely provoke great enthusiasm. Democracies have been known to fail in achieving efficient outcomes and fair distributions of wealth. Moreover, many citizens take the democratic system for granted, simply because they have yet to experience an alternative. This book argue |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XII, 248 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319534053 |
| Index Number: | HB846 |
| CLC: | F0 |
| Contents: | Part I: Contractual Democracy -- Retrospect -- Vote-share Contracts without Signaling of Competence -- Vote Thresholds with Signaling of Competence -- Information Markets, Elections and Threshold Contracts -- Limits of Contractual Democracy -- Part II: Rules for Decision-making and Agenda-setting -- Democratic Provision of Divisible Public Goods -- Minority Voting and Public Project Provision -- Initiative-group Constitutions -- Perspectives. |