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The Voter in the House of Mirrors: Comment on “Proposals for a Democracy of the Future” by Bruno Frey

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In this note, I discuss the paper “Proposal for a democracy of the future” of Bruno Frey. I focus on some critical issues, and point to further potential applications of Frey’s ideas.

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Notes

  1. See, e.g., Bernheim et al. (2018), and reference therein.

  2. See, e.g., Welsh and Poe (1998). For a theoretical comparison of referenda and cost–benefit analysis, see Osborne and Turner (2010).

  3. See Frey and Stutzer (2000).

  4. On the risks that information polarization poses to the democratic dialogue, see Sunstein (2018).

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    Luigi Alberto Franzoni

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I am grateful to the editor Manfred Holler and to Enrico Santarelli for helpful comments.

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Franzoni, L.A. The Voter in the House of Mirrors: Comment on “Proposals for a Democracy of the Future” by Bruno Frey. Homo Oecon 35, 117–121 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41412-018-0067-6

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