Informational limits to democratic public policy
The jury theorem, yardstick competition, and ignorance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10933503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger D Congleton (0000-0002-3637-718X, George Mason University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 132 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 333-352 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Choice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-5829 • E-ISSN: 1573-7101 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11127-007-9155-z |
| OpenAlex | W3123588355 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 42 |
Competition (biology · Condorcet method · Democracy · Economics · Government (linguistics · Ignorance · Jury · Law and economics · Majority rule · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public finance · Voting · Yardstick · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Game Theory and Voting Systems · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Mathematics
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The importance of expertise in group decisions
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Gordon Tullock’s implicit analytical history of government
An expected utility analysis of k-majority rules
Arbitration in classical Athens
The calculus of democratic deliberation
Busy doing nothing
Censorship and mental models
Federalism and pandemic policies
Elections, the curse of competence and credence policies
Harming a favored side
Endogenous competence and a limit to the Condorcet Jury Theorem
The political economy of unfunded public pension liabilities
The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars
On the political economy and limits of crisis insurance
Democracy and Decision
The Use of Knowledge in Society
Decentralisation as an Incentive Scheme
Separation of Powers and Political Accountability
Political Institutions and Policy Choices
An economic theory of democracy
The Calculus of Consent
Democracy and Social Choice
Memories of my life.
Memories of my Life, by Francis Galton
Toward a Mathematics of Politics, by Gordon Tullock
Are Voters Better Informed When They Have a Larger Say in Politics? – Evidence for the European Union and Switzerland
Optimizing group judgmental accuracy in the presence of interdependencies
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy
Galton's Two Papers on Voting as Robust Estimation
Campaign finances and political platforms
The Economics of Information
The Equilibrium Size of a Budget-maximizing Bureau
Delegation, agency, and agenda setting in the European Community
The Persuasiveness of Democratic Majorities
Freedom in the market
Who Controls? Information and the Structure of Legislative Decision Making
The Downsian Model Predicts Divergence
The Condorcet Jury Theorem, Free Speech, and Correlated Votes
A Theory of Political Control and Agency Discretion
A Formal Model of the Politics of Delegation in a Separation of Powers System
A Model of Candidate Location When One Candidate Has a Valence Advantage
What do voters know about the economy
Information Aggregation, Rationality, and the Condorcet Jury Theorem
Consequences of the Condorcet Jury Theorem for Beneficial Information Aggregation by Rational Agents
Rousseau's General Will
An Information Rationale for the Power of Special Interests
Condorcet's Theory of Voting
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |