Public goods, participation constraints, and democracy: a possibility theorem

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2011.11.001MaRDI QIDQ417681zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hans Peter Grüner, Yukio Koriyama

Publication date 14 May 2012

Published in Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2011.11.001

zbMATH Keywords

majority votingex post efficiencyparticipation constraintspublic goods provision

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Public goods (91B18)

Recommendations

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• On the frontier between possibility and impossibility theorems in social choice
• The possibility of efficient provision of a public good in voluntary participation games
• Binary participation and incremental provision of public goods
• Equilibrium in abstract political economies: With an application to a public good economy with voting
• Optimal ownership of public goods reconsidered

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• Equilibrium participation in public goods allocations
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• Robust Mechanism Design
• Storable votes
• The Scope of Anonymous Voluntary Bargaining Under Asymmetric Information
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• Universal possibility and impossibility results

Cited in

(12)

• A group majority voting model of public good provision
• Collective decision through an informed mediator
• On the limits of democracy
• Public good provision with constitutional constraint
• All or nothing: state capacity and optimal public goods provision
• On incentive compatible, individually rational public good provision mechanisms
• Legitimacy of mechanisms for public good provision
• Democracy and dynamic welfare optima
• Fundamental impossibility theorems on voluntary participation in the provision of non-excludable public goods
• A note on the relationship of interdependent action to the optimality of certain voting decisions
• Voting and Lottery Drafts as Efficient Public Goods Mechanisms
• Democracy and efficiency: A note on ``Arrow's theorem is not a surprising result

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