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Voting for the Electoral System: an Experiment

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Ortona, Guido ()

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The choice of the electoral system should be delegated to the citizens. However, citizens are not sufficiently informed to choose the system directly. It is argued that they may instead state their preferences for two basic characteristics of a Parliament, i.e. Governability and Representativeness. It is then possible to choose the system through a purely technical procedure. An experiment illustrates the method.

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Paper provided by Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS in its series P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers with number 42.

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D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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  1. Bissey, Marie-Edith & Canegallo, Claudia & Ortona, Guido & Scacciati, Francesco, 2003. "Competition vs. Cooperation. An Experimental Inquiry," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 37, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
  2. Guido Ortona, 1999. "A weighted-voting electoral system that performs quite well," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 4, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
  3. Ortona, Guido, 2002. "Choosing the electoral system: why not simply the best one?," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 30, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
  4. Ferruccio Ponzano, 2001. "Efficiency wages and endogenous supervision technology," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 23, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
  5. Marchese, Carla & Privileggi, Fabio, 2001. "Who participates in tax amnesties? Self-selection of risk-averse taxpayers," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 21, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
  6. Ponzano, Ferruccio, 2004. "The allocation of the income tax among different levels of government: a theoretical solution," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 40, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
  7. Montrucchio, Luigi & Privileggi, Fabio, 1999. "On Fragility of Bubbles in Equilibrium Asset Pricing Models of Lucas-Type," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 5, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Guido Ortona, 2000. "On the Xenophobia of non-discriminated Ethnic Minorities," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 15, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
  9. Bissey, Marie-Edith & Ortona, Guido, 2002. "A simulative frame to study the integration of defectors in a cooperative setting," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 24, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
  10. Ortona, Guido, 2004. "Voting for the Electoral System: an Experiment," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 42, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
  11. Marie-Edith Bissey & Mauro Carini & Guido Ortona, 2004. "ALEX3: a Simulation Program to Compare Electoral Systems," Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 7. [Downloadable!]
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  12. Ottone, Stefania, 2004. "Transfers and Altruistic Punishments in Third Party Punishment Game Experiments," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 41, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
  13. Marchese, Carla & Privileggi, Fabio, 1999. "Taxpayers Attitudes Toward Risk and Amnesty Participation: Economic Analysis and Evidence for the Italian Case," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 6, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Ortona, Guido, 2004. "Voting for the Electoral System: an Experiment," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 42, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
  4. Bissey, Marie-Edith & Ortona, Guido, 2007. "The program for the simulation of electoral systems ALEX4.1: what it does and how to use it," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 82, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]
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