ECON3029 Direct Democracy
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What is Direct Democracy in terms of electoral systems?
System where citizens vote directly over final outcomes
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What is political economy?
Study of how politics affects the economy and vice versa
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What is direct democracy?
Citizens vote directly over final outcomes
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What is representative democracy?
Citizens elect politicians who then make policy decisions
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What is an example of direct democracy mentioned?
The Assembly of the Canton Glarus in Switzerland
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What does pure majority rule entail?
Citizens voting directly over final alternatives, sincere voting, and open agenda
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What are the two usual forms of rationality mentioned?
Instrumental rationality and expressive rationality
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What makes a person's behavior rational according to the lecture?
Having complete and transitive preferences over possible actions
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What are the two conditions that a preference relation must satisfy?
Complete (a ⪰ b or b ⪰ a) and Transitive (if a ⪰ b and b ⪰ c, then a ⪰ c)
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What does the Representation Theorem state about utility function u(.)?
u(a) ≥ u(b) if, and only if, a ⪰ b
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What type of preferences are single-peaked?
Preferences with a most preferred alternative, whether that be one extreme or an intermediate position on a uni-dimensional spectrum
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What characterizes single-peaked preferences?
Utility decreases as we move away from the peak and never increases again ie one local maximum
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How can rational preferences be represented?
Using a utility function (Representation Theorem)
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Draw multi-peaked preferences
Blue line