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dc.contributor.author | Hain, Roland | en |
dc.contributor.author | Mitra, Manipushpak | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-29T15:10:08Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-29T15:10:08Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/22827 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Why do political constituencies delegate decision power to representative assemblies? And how is the size of such assemblies determined? We analyze these questions of constitutional design in a model with voters learning their preferred alternative only after engaging in costly information gathering. We show that there is an optimal assembly size that would be chosen at a constitutional stage. This implies a relationship between assembly and constituency size. We then compared this relationship to actual data. Fitting a single parameter to the data, we show that our model can explain the actual relationship between assembly and constituency size quite well. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aUniversity of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aBonn Econ Discussion Papers |x17/2002 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D72 | en |
dc.subject.jel | P16 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D82 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Constitutional Design | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Representative Democracy | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Parliament Size | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Information Costs | en |
dc.subject.stw | Demokratie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Parlament | en |
dc.subject.stw | Verfassungsökonomik | en |
dc.subject.stw | Informationskosten | en |
dc.subject.stw | Schätzung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Theorie | en |
dc.subject.stw | EU-Staaten | en |
dc.subject.stw | Deutschland | en |
dc.subject.stw | Schweiz | en |
dc.title | The Delegation Perspective on Representative Democracy | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 374136394 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
dc.identifier.repec | RePEc:zbw:bonedp:172002 | - |
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