Douglas W Rae
Biographic Data
| ID | 1069063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas W Rae |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas W |
| FAMILY NAME | Rae |
| SIGNATURE | RAE D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 598 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Majoritarianism and Majority Rule
The Box: How Shipping Containers Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger – By Marc Levinson
Post-urbanism, Incorporation, and Migration: Post-urbanism, incorporation, and migration
This paper explores an emerging pattern of migration currently being written by the new wave of Mexican migrants in New Haven, Connecticut, a city with little to no history of Mexican migration. Using New Haven as a case study, this paper argues that local conditions shape immigrant experiences and thus frame the process of social and economic incorporation. By contrasting first-wave Italian migration and contemporary Mexican migration, we demons…
Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy – J. Phillip Thompson
Making Life Work in Crowded Places
The author of City: Urbanism and its End (2003) recounts his stint as Chief Administrative Officer of New Haven, Connecticut under that city’s first Black mayor and during one of its toughest fiscal crises. The piece seeks, first, to interpret the failure of Black political succession, which is increasingly evident in many American cities, and to chart the changing features of urban regimes such as New Haven’s. Among the regime changes to which t…
Viacraticamerica: Plessyon Foot v.Brownon Wheels
The United States has undergone a profound spatial reorganization over the course of the twentieth century, and it influences the working of democratic and judicial institutions profoundly. The critical feature is differential access to transportation and place, and the major instrument is of course the automobile. Other technologies—the AC electric grid most fundamental among them—have allowed a finer and finer sorting of the population into rel…
Using District Magnitude to Regulate Political Party Competition
This is an essay about the use of districting systems to regulate electoral outcomes and the evolution of party systems. By changing the number of seats from each district, a balance can be struck between the often conflicting goals of minority representation and defractionalization. Defractionalization is the process of forming broad-based governing majorities. Special attention is given to the electoral systems of Italy, Spain, and the United S…
Political Theory and the Division of Labor in Society: Asleep Aboard the Titanic and Steaming into Halifax
An Altimeter for Mr. Escher's Stairway: A Comment on William H. Riker's “Implications from the Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of Institutions”
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The Ostrogorski Paradox: A Peculiarity of Compound Majority Decision
In the article it is shown that if during an election each voter picks the party with which he agrees on a majority of issues, it is nevertheless possible that a majority of voters disagrees with the winning majority party on every issue. This ‘inverted majority decision’, here called the Ostrogorski‐paradox, resembles the structure underlying the Condorcet paradox and Simpson's paradox. Each concerns a relation of pairwise decision or observatio…
Rejoinder to “Comment” by Gordon Tullock
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Maximin Justice and an Alternative Principle of General Advantage
John Rawls's theory of justice tries to resolve the question of fair allocation: When, if ever, may some members of society claim rightful privilege over their fellows? Rawls's answer is maximin justice: inequalities are just if, by permitting them, society treats best those whom she treats worst. Rawls attempts to show that this rule binds us all under the terms of a social contract. The present paper tries to show that Rawls's theory will not s…
The Limits of Consensual Decision
This essay criticizes the ideal of consensual decision as it appears in liberal political theory. A historical survey begins with Locke's view of consent, its criticism and extension by 19th century figures such as Godwin, Calhoun, and Mill, its reappearance in the guise of economic efficiency within the works of Wicksell or Buchanan and Tullock and as moral autonomy in Wolff'sDefense of Anarchy. The paper offers a structural account of political…
Toward Empirical Democratic Theory: Research Strategies and Tactics
The political consequences of electoral laws
Previous edition published in 1967.
Thresholds of Representation and Thresholds of Exclusion: An Analytic Note on Electoral Systems
"Comment on Wildgen's "The Measurement of Hyperfractionalization
Decision Rules and Policy Outcomes
Contemporary political science is rightly concerned with the complex relationship between the political process and the public policies in which it results. In understanding this relationship, it may be useful to distinguish two complementary aspects of the political process: (1) those which are relevant because they account for the policy preferences of elite-members and, (2) those elements, like voting and bargaining, which are of interest beca…
Political Democracy as a Property of Political Institutions
The paper contends that political democracy is a matter of degree, a variable property of political institutions. An index for this property, Q, measures the extent to which complex institutions approximate a generalized definition of majority-rule (e.g. that losing coalitions must be smaller than winning or blocking ones.) This index for degrees of political democracy is in turn treated as a function of simpler structural variables, such as deci…
The analysis of political cleavages
Some Ambiguities in the Concept of Intensity
An Analysis of Crosscutting between Political Cleavages
Decision-Rules and Individual Values in Constitutional Choice
Once a political community has decided which of its members are to participate directly in the making of collective policy, an important question remains: "How many of them must agree before a policy is imposed on the community?" Only if participation is limited to one man does this question become trivial. And this choice ofdecision-rulesmay seem only a little less important than the choice of rules in a world so largely governed by committees, …
A Note on the Fractionalization of Some European Party Systems
The political consequences of electoral laws
Previous edition published in 1967.
The analysis of political cleavages
Thresholds of Representation and Thresholds of Exclusion: An Analytic Note on Electoral Systems
A Note on the Fractionalization of Some European Party Systems
The Limits of Consensual Decision
This essay criticizes the ideal of consensual decision as it appears in liberal political theory. A historical survey begins with Locke's view of consent, its criticism and extension by 19th century figures such as Godwin, Calhoun, and Mill, its reappearance in the guise of economic efficiency within the works of Wicksell or Buchanan and Tullock and as moral autonomy in Wolff'sDefense of Anarchy. The paper offers a structural account of political…
Decision-Rules and Individual Values in Constitutional Choice
Once a political community has decided which of its members are to participate directly in the making of collective policy, an important question remains: "How many of them must agree before a policy is imposed on the community?" Only if participation is limited to one man does this question become trivial. And this choice ofdecision-rulesmay seem only a little less important than the choice of rules in a world so largely governed by committees, …
Decision Rules and Policy Outcomes
Contemporary political science is rightly concerned with the complex relationship between the political process and the public policies in which it results. In understanding this relationship, it may be useful to distinguish two complementary aspects of the political process: (1) those which are relevant because they account for the policy preferences of elite-members and, (2) those elements, like voting and bargaining, which are of interest beca…
The Ostrogorski Paradox: A Peculiarity of Compound Majority Decision
In the article it is shown that if during an election each voter picks the party with which he agrees on a majority of issues, it is nevertheless possible that a majority of voters disagrees with the winning majority party on every issue. This ‘inverted majority decision’, here called the Ostrogorski‐paradox, resembles the structure underlying the Condorcet paradox and Simpson's paradox. Each concerns a relation of pairwise decision or observatio…
An Analysis of Crosscutting between Political Cleavages
Political Democracy as a Property of Political Institutions
The paper contends that political democracy is a matter of degree, a variable property of political institutions. An index for this property, Q, measures the extent to which complex institutions approximate a generalized definition of majority-rule (e.g. that losing coalitions must be smaller than winning or blocking ones.) This index for degrees of political democracy is in turn treated as a function of simpler structural variables, such as deci…
"Comment on Wildgen's "The Measurement of Hyperfractionalization
Making Life Work in Crowded Places
The author of City: Urbanism and its End (2003) recounts his stint as Chief Administrative Officer of New Haven, Connecticut under that city’s first Black mayor and during one of its toughest fiscal crises. The piece seeks, first, to interpret the failure of Black political succession, which is increasingly evident in many American cities, and to chart the changing features of urban regimes such as New Haven’s. Among the regime changes to which t…
Using District Magnitude to Regulate Political Party Competition
This is an essay about the use of districting systems to regulate electoral outcomes and the evolution of party systems. By changing the number of seats from each district, a balance can be struck between the often conflicting goals of minority representation and defractionalization. Defractionalization is the process of forming broad-based governing majorities. Special attention is given to the electoral systems of Italy, Spain, and the United S…
Viacraticamerica: Plessyon Foot v.Brownon Wheels
The United States has undergone a profound spatial reorganization over the course of the twentieth century, and it influences the working of democratic and judicial institutions profoundly. The critical feature is differential access to transportation and place, and the major instrument is of course the automobile. Other technologies—the AC electric grid most fundamental among them—have allowed a finer and finer sorting of the population into rel…
Maximin Justice and an Alternative Principle of General Advantage
John Rawls's theory of justice tries to resolve the question of fair allocation: When, if ever, may some members of society claim rightful privilege over their fellows? Rawls's answer is maximin justice: inequalities are just if, by permitting them, society treats best those whom she treats worst. Rawls attempts to show that this rule binds us all under the terms of a social contract. The present paper tries to show that Rawls's theory will not s…
Toward Empirical Democratic Theory: Research Strategies and Tactics
An Altimeter for Mr. Escher's Stairway: A Comment on William H. Riker's “Implications from the Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of Institutions”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Some Ambiguities in the Concept of Intensity
Post-urbanism, Incorporation, and Migration: Post-urbanism, incorporation, and migration
This paper explores an emerging pattern of migration currently being written by the new wave of Mexican migrants in New Haven, Connecticut, a city with little to no history of Mexican migration. Using New Haven as a case study, this paper argues that local conditions shape immigrant experiences and thus frame the process of social and economic incorporation. By contrasting first-wave Italian migration and contemporary Mexican migration, we demons…
A Note on the Fractionalization of Some European Party Systems
Some Ambiguities in the Concept of Intensity
An Analysis of Crosscutting between Political Cleavages
Decision-Rules and Individual Values in Constitutional Choice
Once a political community has decided which of its members are to participate directly in the making of collective policy, an important question remains: "How many of them must agree before a policy is imposed on the community?" Only if participation is limited to one man does this question become trivial. And this choice ofdecision-rulesmay seem only a little less important than the choice of rules in a world so largely governed by committees, …
The analysis of political cleavages
The political consequences of electoral laws
Previous edition published in 1967.
Thresholds of Representation and Thresholds of Exclusion: An Analytic Note on Electoral Systems
"Comment on Wildgen's "The Measurement of Hyperfractionalization
Decision Rules and Policy Outcomes
Contemporary political science is rightly concerned with the complex relationship between the political process and the public policies in which it results. In understanding this relationship, it may be useful to distinguish two complementary aspects of the political process: (1) those which are relevant because they account for the policy preferences of elite-members and, (2) those elements, like voting and bargaining, which are of interest beca…
Political Democracy as a Property of Political Institutions
The paper contends that political democracy is a matter of degree, a variable property of political institutions. An index for this property, Q, measures the extent to which complex institutions approximate a generalized definition of majority-rule (e.g. that losing coalitions must be smaller than winning or blocking ones.) This index for degrees of political democracy is in turn treated as a function of simpler structural variables, such as deci…
Toward Empirical Democratic Theory: Research Strategies and Tactics
Rejoinder to “Comment” by Gordon Tullock
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Maximin Justice and an Alternative Principle of General Advantage
John Rawls's theory of justice tries to resolve the question of fair allocation: When, if ever, may some members of society claim rightful privilege over their fellows? Rawls's answer is maximin justice: inequalities are just if, by permitting them, society treats best those whom she treats worst. Rawls attempts to show that this rule binds us all under the terms of a social contract. The present paper tries to show that Rawls's theory will not s…
The Limits of Consensual Decision
This essay criticizes the ideal of consensual decision as it appears in liberal political theory. A historical survey begins with Locke's view of consent, its criticism and extension by 19th century figures such as Godwin, Calhoun, and Mill, its reappearance in the guise of economic efficiency within the works of Wicksell or Buchanan and Tullock and as moral autonomy in Wolff'sDefense of Anarchy. The paper offers a structural account of political…
The Ostrogorski Paradox: A Peculiarity of Compound Majority Decision
In the article it is shown that if during an election each voter picks the party with which he agrees on a majority of issues, it is nevertheless possible that a majority of voters disagrees with the winning majority party on every issue. This ‘inverted majority decision’, here called the Ostrogorski‐paradox, resembles the structure underlying the Condorcet paradox and Simpson's paradox. Each concerns a relation of pairwise decision or observatio…
An Altimeter for Mr. Escher's Stairway: A Comment on William H. Riker's “Implications from the Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of Institutions”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political Theory and the Division of Labor in Society: Asleep Aboard the Titanic and Steaming into Halifax
Using District Magnitude to Regulate Political Party Competition
This is an essay about the use of districting systems to regulate electoral outcomes and the evolution of party systems. By changing the number of seats from each district, a balance can be struck between the often conflicting goals of minority representation and defractionalization. Defractionalization is the process of forming broad-based governing majorities. Special attention is given to the electoral systems of Italy, Spain, and the United S…
Viacraticamerica: Plessyon Foot v.Brownon Wheels
The United States has undergone a profound spatial reorganization over the course of the twentieth century, and it influences the working of democratic and judicial institutions profoundly. The critical feature is differential access to transportation and place, and the major instrument is of course the automobile. Other technologies—the AC electric grid most fundamental among them—have allowed a finer and finer sorting of the population into rel…
Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy – J. Phillip Thompson
Making Life Work in Crowded Places
The author of City: Urbanism and its End (2003) recounts his stint as Chief Administrative Officer of New Haven, Connecticut under that city’s first Black mayor and during one of its toughest fiscal crises. The piece seeks, first, to interpret the failure of Black political succession, which is increasingly evident in many American cities, and to chart the changing features of urban regimes such as New Haven’s. Among the regime changes to which t…
The Box: How Shipping Containers Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger – By Marc Levinson
Post-urbanism, Incorporation, and Migration: Post-urbanism, incorporation, and migration
This paper explores an emerging pattern of migration currently being written by the new wave of Mexican migrants in New Haven, Connecticut, a city with little to no history of Mexican migration. Using New Haven as a case study, this paper argues that local conditions shape immigrant experiences and thus frame the process of social and economic incorporation. By contrasting first-wave Italian migration and contemporary Mexican migration, we demons…
Majoritarianism and Majority Rule
Political science (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Democracy (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works)