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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Wilson, Rick K. |
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Conference:
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1981 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association |
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Location:
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Memphis, TN |
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Conf. Date:
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November 5-7, 1981 |
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Date:
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1981 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1414
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Sector:
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Theory |
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Subject(s):
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Workshop
committees--models
institutional analysis
game theory
democracy--models
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Abstract:
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"Combining philosophy with empirical analysis is generally a dangerous thing to undertake. Something will always be lost in the translation. Nonetheless, in most instances such an endeavor is warranted. This paper provides a brief overview of a central concern in the debate between proponents of classical democratic theory and empirical democratic thought. This concern reduces to whether the contextual elements of a polity (more specifically the institutional structure) have a significant effect on democratic practice. The empirical work in this paper attempts to show that changes in the structure of a 'democratic' decision-making arrangement can affect the outcomes for that arrangement. Further, it is possible to model such an institution and subsequently to predict certain classes of outcomes."
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