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dc.contributor.authorHain, Rolanden
dc.contributor.authorMitra, Manipushpaken
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-29T15:10:08Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-29T15:10:08Z-
dc.date.issued2002-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/22827-
dc.description.abstractWhy 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.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aBonn Econ Discussion Papers |x17/2002en
dc.subject.jelD72en
dc.subject.jelP16en
dc.subject.jelD82en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordConstitutional Designen
dc.subject.keywordRepresentative Democracyen
dc.subject.keywordParliament Sizeen
dc.subject.keywordInformation Costsen
dc.subject.stwDemokratieen
dc.subject.stwParlamenten
dc.subject.stwVerfassungsökonomiken
dc.subject.stwInformationskostenen
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.subject.stwEU-Staatenen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.subject.stwSchweizen
dc.titleThe Delegation Perspective on Representative Democracy-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn374136394en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:bonedp:172002-

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