James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock on the Weaknesses of Majority Voting: A Triptych

This paper provides a narrative of the different but complementary accounts of James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock on the weaknesses of simple majority voting. The paper shows that these authors took different paths to reach the same conclusion. Buchanan used his knowledge about Knut Wicksell which...

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Main Author: Julien Grandjean
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Œconomia 2021-03-01
Series:Œconomia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/10780