Decision Costs and Welfare Effects of Democratic Voting Rules: an Experimental Analysis

Q3 Social Sciences

World Political Science Pub Date : 2012-09-10 DOI:10.1515/wpsr-2012-0008

Ulrich Glassmann, Jan Sauermann

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Abstract

Abstract What impact do majority rule and unanimity rule have on welfare and decision costs? According to Buchanan and Tullock ([1962] 1999) the unanimity principle must be regarded as a democratic norm, because it guarantees Pareto-efficient welfare effects. We present experimental results from a public goods game, which demonstrate in contrast to this assumption that majority rule can produce greater welfare effects than unanimity rule. This result suggests a critical revision of theoretical approaches which narrow the legitimacy of majority rule in this respect.

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民主投票规则的决策成本与福利效应:一个实验分析

多数决定原则和一致同意原则对福利和决策成本有什么影响?根据Buchanan和Tullock([1962] 1999)的观点，一致同意原则必须被视为一种民主规范，因为它保证了帕累托有效的福利效应。我们提出了一个公共产品博弈的实验结果，与此假设相反，多数决定规则比一致同意规则能产生更大的福利效应。这一结果表明了对理论方法的批判性修正，这些方法在这方面缩小了多数决定原则的合法性。

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