Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75833 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 464
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In this paper we introduce flexible majority decision rules where the size of the majority depends on the proposal made by the agenda setter. Flexible majority rules can mitigate the disadvantages of democracies in the provision of public projects. In many cases, the combination of the principles taxation constraint to majority winners, a ban on subsidies, costly agenda setting and flexible majority rules constitute a socially optimal democratic constitution. Flexible majority rules might also be a useful decision-making procedure in other circumstances.
Subjects: 
Flexible majority rules
incomplete social contract
constitutional treatment rules
provision of public projects
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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