Redesigning Democracy More Ideas for Better Rules /

• Main Author: Gersbach, Hans (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Political economy.; Democracy.; Economic theory.; Welfare economics.; Public finance.; Law and economics.; Economics.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice.; Public Economics.; Political Economy.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Law and Economics.

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-gove...

Table of 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.