书目名称 | Redesigning Democracy | 副标题 | More Ideas for Bette | 编辑 | Hans Gersbach | 视频video | | 概述 | Proposes new rules for improving the functioning of democracies.Shows how innovative collective decision rules and election schemes can optimize the democratic system.Presents a vision for more societ | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 democracies are the best systems of self-governance for societies, they rarely provoke great enthusiasm. Democracies have been known to fail in achieving efficient outcomes and fair distributions of wealth. Moreover, many citizens take the democratic system for granted, simply because they have yet to experience an alternative. This book argues that the potential offered by democracies has not yet been exhausted, and that optimal democracies are both the Utopia for societies and the aim that scientists should commit themselves to making a reality. Furthermore, the book suggests a number of insightful rules to improve the functioning of democracies..“We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we have done it.” This famous quip by Jean-Claude Juncker perfectly encapsulates the challenge this book takes on: how to redesign our democratic institutions to overcome political short-termism and make our democ | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | 关键词 | Democracy; Contractual democracy; Economic design; Elections; Election scheme; Majority rules; Political c | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53405-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-85144-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-53405-3 | copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2017 |
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