Tying the Politicians’ Hands: The Optimal Limits to Representative Democracy
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- Didier Laussel & Ngo Van Long, 2020. "Tying the politicians’ hands: The optimal limits to representative democracy," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 22(1), pages 25-48, February.
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- Didier Laussel & Ngo Long, 2020. "Tying the politicians’ hands: The optimal limits to representative democracy," Post-Print hal-02274376, HAL.
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Keywords
Representative Democracy; Optimal Delegation; Political Uncertainty; Policy Caps; Policy Floors; Citizen Candidates; Démocratie représentative; Délégation optimale; Incertitude politique; Plafonds de politique; Planchers de politique; Candidats citoyens;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MIC-2019-07-29 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-POL-2019-07-29 (Positive Political Economics)
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