Arbeitspapier
Non-Majoritarian Institutions - A Menace to Constitutional Democracy?
Over the last couple of decades, non-majoritarian institutions (NMIs) have been introduced in many countries. Of late, they have been criticized as promoting technocracy to the detriment of democracy. A number of political scientists even argue that they would strengthen populists and be, hence, one reason for democratic backsliding. This paper does three things: It firstly briefly discusses the empirical evidence for the claim that NMIs have strengthened populists. It secondly argues that not all NMIs are born equal and therefore proposes a taxonomy enabling us to distinguish different types. And it finally discusses the question how the delegation of policy-making competence to experts can be legitimized relying on a specific version of social contract theory. To develop the argument, the interdependence cost calculus developed by Buchanan and Tullock (1962) is modified by explicitly including the respective decision-making procedure, distinguishing between direct democracy, representative democracy, and expert decision-making.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ILE Working Paper Series ; No. 68
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Human Rights Law; Gender Law
Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
- Thema
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Nonmajoritarian institutions
constitutional democracy
technocracy
independent regulatory agencies
populism
social contract theory
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Voigt, Stefan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics (ILE)
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Hamburg
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Voigt, Stefan
- University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics (ILE)
Entstanden
- 2023
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