On the Durability of King and Council: The Continuum Between Dictatorship and Democracy |
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Authors: | Roger D Congleton |
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Institution: | (1) Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA |
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Abstract: | In practice one rarely observes pure forms of dictatorship that lack a council, or pure forms of parliament that lack an executive. Generally government policies emerge from organizations that combine an executive branch of government, the king, with a cabinet or parliamentary branch, the council. This paper provides an explanation for this regularity, and also provides an evolutionary model of the emergence of democracy that does not require a revolution. The analysis demonstrates that the bipolar king and council constitutional template has a number of properties that gives it great practical efficiency as a method of information processing and as a very flexible institutional arrangement for making collective decisions. |
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