Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121265 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2015/11
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the relation between mechanism design and voting in public-good provision. If incentive mechanisms must satisfy conditions of coalition-proofness and robustness, as well as individual incentive compatibility, the participants' contributions to public-good provision can only depend on the level of the public good that is provided and that level can only depend on the population shares of people favouring one level over another. For a public good that comes as a single indivisible unit the outcome depends on whether or not the share of votes in favour of provision exceeds a specified threshold. With more provision levels for the public good more complicated mechanisms can be used but they still involve the counting of votes rather than any measurement of the participants' willingness to pay. The paper thus provides a foundation for the use of voting mechanisms.
Subjects: 
mechanism design
public-good provision
voting mechanisms
JEL: 
D82
H41
D70
D60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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