Modes of Collective Decision-Making
Eight Criteria for Evaluation of Representatives, Referenda, Participation and Surveys
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6326940 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terry Nichols Clark (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 13-22 |
| Publication date | 1976-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557376783015677 |
| OpenAlex | W1969775617 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This short paper seeks more to raise questions than provide answers. It differs from most recent work on measuring citizen preferences in the range of questions posed. Indeed, most such work, we argue, represents what economists term suboptimizing. The major studies on social welfare functions deserve our respect for their mathematical elegance. But how is this tradition to be linked to more general concerns, such as assessing legislative decision-making versus citizen participation versus surveys? This paper outlines a framework that might be applied in a general benefit-cost approach. If its answers, in the form of entries in Table 1, are only most tentative, it still points to a distinctive set of questions for future work, In the meantime, policy makers and their consultants must reach decisions regarding the relative merits of such things as citizen surveys. This framework may serve minimally as a structure for assessment of alternatives. Table 1 lists four decision-making modes and eight criteria for their evaluation. The remainder of the paper comments briefly on the various cells of Table 1. The four modes in Table 1 are singled out because of their empirical frequency
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| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2005 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |