Redesigning Democracy More Ideas for Better Rules
Could democracy do better? This book presents a vision on optimal democracies and a set of new rules to help achieve them. The monograph follows on the author’s successful book “Designing Democracy” from 2005 and further develops its ideas. While liberal
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Redesigning Democracy More Ideas for Better Rules
Redesigning Democracy
Hans Gersbach
Redesigning Democracy More Ideas for Better Rules
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Hans Gersbach Chair of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland
ISBN 978-3-319-53404-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-53405-3
ISBN 978-3-319-53405-3
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Preface
To those who live under tyranny, democracy is an ideal worth fighting for. Many people strive to establish democracy in their own country; equal voting and agenda-setting rights, separation of powers, civic liberties such as freedom of speech and the right to form political parties, appeal to an elementary sense of justice. Democracy distributes decision power equally among citizens, regardless of wealth or education, through the right to vote. As a matter of fact, democracy is the only form of government that can make citizens the owners of their state and can sustain high standards of living. Yet, democracy-born citizens, who are used to its benefits, sometimes barely acknowledge its existence and do not exercise their right to vote. Although many are putting their life at risk to obtain this right, those who live in a democracy might —if asked—even underline its failures rather than its benefits. These inefficiencies are worth exploring, and have been studied for many decades now. In this successor of Designing Democracy, which was published in 2005, we follow an unexplored route: Are there new forms of democracy that can overcome current shortcomings and achieve higher welfare th
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