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Designing Democracy
Hans Gersbach
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Description for Designing Democracy
Hardback. Presents a number of ideas for drawing up new rules to improve the functioning of democracies. This book examines ways of combining incentive contracts with democratic elections. It also presents new rules for decision-making, agendas and agenda settings which can transcend the limitations of prevailing democracies in achieving desirable outcomes. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; KCA; KCH; KCP; KFFD; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
While liberal democracies are the best systems of self-governance for societies, they rarely invoke great enthusiasm. On the one hand, democracies have been known to fail in achieving efficient or fair allocations. On the other hand, many citizens take the democratic system for granted as they have yet to experience an alternative. In this book the vision we propose is that the potential of democ racies has not yet been exhausted, and that optimal democracies are both the Utopia for societies and the aim that scientists should be committed to. We present a number of ideas for drawing up new ... Read more
While liberal democracies are the best systems of self-governance for societies, they rarely invoke great enthusiasm. On the one hand, democracies have been known to fail in achieving efficient or fair allocations. On the other hand, many citizens take the democratic system for granted as they have yet to experience an alternative. In this book the vision we propose is that the potential of democ racies has not yet been exhausted, and that optimal democracies are both the Utopia for societies and the aim that scientists should be committed to. We present a number of ideas for drawing up new ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540224020
SKU
V9783540224020
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Ref
99-15
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