Representative Democracy with or without Elections: An Economic Analysis
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Keywords
Elections; sortition; political selection; policy decisions; imperfect information.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2020-06-15 (Collective Decision-Making)
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