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@article{citeulike:115364, abstract = {This paper develops an approach to the study of democratic policy-making where politicians are selected by the people from those citizens who present themselves as candidates for public office. The approach has a number of attractive features. First, it is a conceptualization of a pure form of representative democracy in which government is by, as well as of, the people. Second, the model is analytically tractable, being able to handle multidimensional issue and policy spaces very naturally. Third, it provides a vehicle for answering normative questions about the performance of representative democracy.}, author = {Besley, Timothy and Coate, Stephen}, citeulike-article-id = {115364}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2951277}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2951277}, doi = {10.2307/2951277}, issn = {00335533}, journal = {The Quarterly Journal of Economics}, keywords = {aarpubec, democracy, macroeconomics, public\_choice}, number = {1}, pages = {85--114}, posted-at = {2005-03-06 16:09:24}, priority = {2}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, title = {An Economic Model of Representative Democracy}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2951277}, volume = {112}, year = {1997} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:115364 L3 - citeulike-article-id:115364 N2 - This paper develops an approach to the study of democratic policy-making where politicians are selected by the people from those citizens who present themselves as candidates for public office. The approach has a number of attractive features. First, it is a conceptualization of a pure form of representative democracy in which government is by, as well as of, the people. Second, the model is analytically tractable, being able to handle multidimensional issue and policy spaces very naturally. Third, it provides a vehicle for answering normative questions about the performance of representative democracy. IS - 1 JF - The Quarterly Journal of Economics SN - 00335533 EP - 114 TI - An Economic Model of Representative Democracy PB - The MIT Press VL - 112 SP - 85 KW - aarpubec KW - democracy KW - macroeconomics KW - public_choice AU - Besley, Timothy AU - Coate, Stephen PY - 1997/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2951277 ER -