论国家的民主权重

On the Democratic Weights of Nations

Journal of Political Economy · 2017
被引 53
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

从民主公平角度研究不同规模群体的代表应分配多少投票权重,发现若选民偏好独立同分布则权重应与群体规模的平方根成正比,但偏好极化时需改为简单比例。

Abstract

Which voting weights ought to be allocated to single delegates of differently sized groups from a democratic fairness perspective? We operationalize the one person, one vote principle by demanding every individual’s influence on collective decisions to be equal a priori. The analysis differs from previous ones by considering intervals of alternatives. New reasons lead to an old conclusion: weights should be proportional to the square root of constituency sizes if voter preferences are independent and identically distributed. This finding is fragile, however, in that preference polarization along constituency lines quickly calls for plain proportionality.

平方根加权投票一人一票原则选民偏好极化选区规模