Hvad nu, hvis flertallet ikke ønsker vinderen af et demokratisk valg?

What if the majority does not want the winner of a democratic election?

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Social choice analysis has demonstrated that it is possible that the result of a democratic process may not be what a majority of the decision-makers wanted. An election inversion (where there is a discrepancy between what a majority wanted and the result) was clearly visible in the 2016 US presidential election, but it was less visible that even the Republican primary voters may not have wanted Trump.

Keywords: Social choice; elections; electoral systems; Donald Trump; US politics; 2016 primary elections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-07
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