Choosing Governments or Identifying Preferences? The Role of Elections in Democracy
This chapter lays out the general questions as described in the overview. Is it really satisfactory to have ‘democracy with qualifiers’ (majoritarian, consensus, and so on) each justified in their own terms? A unifying median mandate approach is proposed which also gives a guarantee of a necessary connection between popular preferences and public policy, which no other account of representative democracy provides.
Keywords: democracy, government mandate, median mandate, popular preferences, public policy, elections, political parties, representative democracy, majoritarian democracy
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