Implementing direct democracy via representation
| dc.contributor.author | Correa Lopera, Guadalupe | |
| dc.contributor.department | Economía | es_ES |
| dc.contributor.department | Ekonomia | eu |
| dc.contributor.funder | Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-18T11:52:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-18T11:52:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2024-09-18T11:42:53Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Today, several social movements in western democracies argue that traditional representative democracy has failed to adequately represent the will of the 'people', and instead support direct democracy as the only political system to restore the will of the majority. We analyze under what conditions the policy - a vector of decisions on every issue - implemented by the winner of a bipartisan electoral competition coincides with the policy that citizens would choose by means of direct democracy. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for this equivalence to hold, implying that, as long as at least one of them is not fulfilled, a divergence of outcomes between direct and representative democracy arises. The first condition requires that the outcome of majority voting issue-by-issue is the Condorcet winner relative to the voters' preference profile over the set of policies. The second requires that either that outcome is the preferred policy for at least one of the candidates, or that candidates¿ preferred policies differ on every single issue. We reinterpret some findings in the literature in the light of our model and present them as potential reasons why the equivalence between direct and representative democracy may fail. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Funding text 1: Financial support through the Grant PID2020-114309GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, the Grant PID2 021-127119NB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by \u201CERDF A way of making Europe\u201D, and the Grant PJUPNA2023-11403 funded by Universidad Pública de Navarra is gratefully acknowledged. Open access funding provided by Universidad Pública de Navarra.; Funding text 2: Financial support through the Grant PID2020-114309GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 , the Grant PID2021-127119NB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 and by \u201C ERDF A way of making Europe \u201D, and the Grant PJUPNA2023-11403 funded by Universidad Pública de Navarra is gratefully acknowledged. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Correa-Lopera, G. (2024) Implementing direct democracy via representation. Mathematical Social Sciences, 129, 85-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2024.04.001. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2024.04.001 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0165-4896 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/51651 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Mathematical Social Sciences (2024), vol. 129 | |
| dc.relation.projectID | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2020-114309GB-I00/ES/ | |
| dc.relation.projectID | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023/PID2021-127119NB-I00/ES/ | |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2024.04.001 | |
| dc.rights | © 2024 The Author. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. | |
| dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Bipartisan | en |
| dc.subject | Direct democracy | en |
| dc.subject | Elections | en |
| dc.subject | Information | en |
| dc.subject | Majority rule | en |
| dc.subject | Representative democracy | en |
| dc.title | Implementing direct democracy via representation | en |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
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