Democracy as Insurance

Einar Overbye

Public Choice, 1996, vol. 87, issue 3-4, 319-45

Abstract: Explaining the existence and stability of democracies pose difficulties for the public choice paradigm. This article argues that these difficulties may be resolved by focusing on the insurance aspect of democratic decision-making procedures. Democratic regimes may be better able than autocratic regimes to provide the inhabitants with insurance against the risk of being subjected to arbitrary suppression from the ruling elite. This propensity of democratic regimes may explain the origin, as well as stability, of such regimes. Copyright 1996 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1996
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