caa a22 4500 477078532 CHVBK 20180405111444.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00118652 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00118652 Overbye Einar Institute of Applied Social Research, Munthes Gate 31, 0260, Oslo, Norway aut Democracy as insurance [Elektronische Daten] [Einar Overbye] Explaining the existence and stability of democracies pose difficulties for the Public Choice-paradigm. The article argues that these difficulties may be resolved by focusing on the insurance-aspect of democratic decision-making procedures. Democratic regimes may be better able than autocratic regimes to provide the inhabitants with insurance against the risk of being subjected to arbitrary suppression from the ruling elite. This propensity of democratic regimes may explain the origin, as well as stability, of such regimes. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 87/3-4(1996-06-01), 319-345 0048-5829 87:3-4<319 1996 87 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00118652 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00118652 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Overbye Einar Institute of Applied Social Research, Munthes Gate 31, 0260, Oslo, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 87/3-4(1996-06-01), 319-345 0048-5829 87:3-4<319 1996 87 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer