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Social Choice in a Representative Democracy

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  • Benoît, Jean-Pierre
  • Kornhauser, Lewis A.

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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. Rather they vote for individual candidates, with the candidates receiving the most votes elected. We examine the efficiency properties of these voting systems.

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  • Benoît, Jean-Pierre & Kornhauser, Lewis A., 1994. "Social Choice in a Representative Democracy," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 88(1), pages 185-192, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:88:y:1994:i:01:p:185-192_09
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    1. Eric Kamwa & Vincent Merlin, 2018. "Coincidence of Condorcet committees," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 50(1), pages 171-189, January.
    2. Benoît, Jean-Pierre & Kornhauser, Lewis A., 2010. "Only a dictatorship is efficient," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 70(2), pages 261-270, November.
    3. Baruah, Joydeep, 2009. "Planning at the Grassroots: An Experiment with Integrated District Planning," MPRA Paper 47259, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Richard F. Potthoff & Steven J. Brams, 1998. "Proportional Representation," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 10(2), pages 147-178, April.
    5. Dean Lacy & Emerson M.S. Niou, 2000. "A Problem with Referendums," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 12(1), pages 5-31, January.
    6. Dean Lacy & Emerson M. S. Niou, 1998. "Elections in Double-Member Districts with Nonseparable Voter Preferences," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 10(1), pages 89-110, January.
    7. Lang, Jrme & Xia, Lirong, 2009. "Sequential composition of voting rules in multi-issue domains," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 57(3), pages 304-324, May.
    8. Benoit, J.P. & Kornhauser, L.A., 1996. "On Candidate-Based Analyses of Assembly Elections," Working Papers 96-29, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University.

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