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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Hain, Roland | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Mitra, Manipushpak | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-01-29T15:10:08Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2009-01-29T15:10:08Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2002 | | en_US |
| 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_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Bonn econ discussion papers 2002,17 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D72 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | P16 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D82 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Constitutional Design | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Representative Democracy | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Parliament Size | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Information Costs | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Demokratie | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Parlament | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Verfassungsökonomik | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Informationskosten | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Schätzung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Theorie | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | EU-Staaten | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Deutschland | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Schweiz | | en_US |
| dc.title | | The Delegation Perspective on Representative Democracy | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 374136394 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | Bonn Econ Discussion Papers, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE), Universität Bonn
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