Bipolar Multicandidate Elections with Corruption Bipolar Multicandidate Elections with Corruption
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The goals of democratic competition are not only to give implement a majority's preference on policy questions, but also to provide a deterrent against corrupt abuse of power by political leaders. We consider a simple model of multicandidate elections in which different electoral systems can be compared according to these two criteria. Among a wide class of singlewinner scoring rules, only approval voting is found to be satisfy both effectiveness against corruption and majoritarianism for this model. JEL Classification: D72. Author's address: Roger B. Myerson, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 USA. Phone: 773-834-9071 Email: [email protected] Internet: http://home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/
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