Unanimity Rule Constitutions

Hans Gersbach () and Ulrich Erlenmaier
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Ulrich Erlenmaier: University of Heidelberg

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Abstract: In this paper, we show that the shortcomings of the unanimity rule can be alleviated by complementing it with the following constitutional principles: broad packages with many public projects can only be proposed once in a legislative term, the agenda setter needs to pay the highest taxes he is proposing, as well as a ban on subsidies. We show that such democratic constitutions yield efficient public project provision.

Keywords: Unanimity rule; incomplete social contract; constitutional treatment rules; provision of public projects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 D72 H40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-08-04
Note: Type of Document - Tex; prepared on UNIX ; to print on PostScript; pages: 16; figures: .

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