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Erscheinungsjahr: 
1997
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Discussion Papers No. 205
Verlag: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Zusammenfassung: 
In traditional cost-benefit analyses of public projects, every citizen's willingness to pay for a project is given an equal weight. This is sometimes taken to imply that cost-benefit analysis is a democratic method for making public decisions, as opposed to, for example, political processes involving log-rolling and lobbying from interest groups. Politicians are frequently criticized for not putting enough emphasis on the cost-benefit analyses when making decisions. In this paper we discuss the extent to which using cost-benefit analysis to rank public projects is consistent with Dahl's (1989) criteria for democratic decision-making. We find several fundamental conflicts, both when cost-benefit analysis is used to provide final answers about projects' social desirability, and when used only as informational input to a political process. Our conclusions are illustrated using data from interviews with Norwegian politicians.
Schlagwörter: 
Democracy
cost-benefit analysis
JEL: 
A13
D61
D70
H43
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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