Institutions of Direct Democracy and Happiness
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This monograph studies the implications that institutions of direct democracy have on the happiness of a society, in a framework where the authority is interested both in implementing its ideal policy and in its re-election. It is shown that, in cases where authorities have full information about the social distribution of opinions, political activity drives a positive measure of authority types to choose the socially preferred policy. It is, also, shown that if the authority possesses a relatively low level of information about the distribution of opinions of the society, referenda in a great variety of cases offer a high level of happiness to the society and, thus, a high re-election probability to the authority. When the authority possesses full information about the distribution of opinions of the society, and the society is unaware of this fact, referenda also have a positive effect on social happiness and sequentially to the re-election probability of the authority. The optimal...Похожие книги
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