The multiple hierarchical legislatures in representative democracy


Autoria(s): Tasnádi, Attila; Kobayashi, Katsuya
Data(s)

01/05/2012

Resumo

Multiple hierarchical models of representative democracies in which, for instance, voters elect county representatives, county representatives elect district representatives, district representatives elect state representatives and state representatives a president, reduces the number of electors a representative is answerable for, and therefore, considering each level separately, these models could come closer to direct democracy. In this paper we show that worst case policy bias increases with the number of hierarchical levels. This also means that the opportunities of a gerrymanderer increase in the number of hierarchical levels.

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application/pdf

Identificador

http://unipub.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/617/1/Tasnadi_wp2012a.pdf

Tasnádi, Attila and Kobayashi, Katsuya (2012) The multiple hierarchical legislatures in representative democracy. Working Paper. Department of Mathematics Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest.

Publicador

Department of Mathematics Corvinus University of Budapest

Relação

http://unipub.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/617/

Palavras-Chave #Mathematics, Econometrics #Political science
Tipo

Monograph

NonPeerReviewed

Idioma(s)

en

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