| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w8036
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 8036
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| Issue Unbundling via Citizens' Initiatives |
| Timothy Besley; Stephen Coate
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| 发表日期 | 2000-12-01
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| 出版年 | 2000
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The role of citizens' initiatives figures prominently in contemporary debates on constitutional change. A basic question is why are initiatives necessary in a representative democracy where candidates must already compete for the right to control policy? This paper offers one answer to this question. In a representative democracy, the bundling of issues together with the fact that citizens have only one vote, means that policy outcomes on specific issues may diverge far from what the majority of citizens want. In such circumstances, allowing citizens to put legislation directly on the ballot, permits the unbundling' of these issues, which forces a closer relationship between policy outcomes and popular preferences. To the extent that it is considered socially undesirable for outcomes on specific issues to stray too far from what the majority wants, this creates a role for citizens' initiatives. |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w8036
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/565628
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Timothy Besley,Stephen Coate. Issue Unbundling via Citizens' Initiatives. 2000.
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