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- Title
Imperfect public choice.
- Authors
de Palma, André; Myers, Gordon M.; Papageorgiou, Yorgos Y.
- Abstract
We model imperfect governments with public choices that are sequential, myopic and not free of error. We first use this framework to explore governmental incremental budgeting. We argue that a model of bounded rationality is required to capture the empirical reality of incremental budgeting. We then provide a model that integrates bounds errors and systematic errors. We argue that the empirical evidence is that bounds errors and systematic errors are inextricably intertwined—some level of bounded rationality is required for systematic errors to emerge. We use this to explore political information lobbying. A testable hypothesis is that lobbyists will focus efforts on policy‐makers of low ability. We show that choosing leaders with high ability, that is Madison's wisdom to discern, is important, especially when policy decisions concern dangerous products (rifles) or dangerous environments (pandemics).
- Subjects
MADISON (Wis.); SOCIAL choice; BOUNDED rationality; PANDEMICS; RIFLES
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2023, Vol 56, Issue 4, p1413
- ISSN
0008-4085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/caje.12683