Elections as instruments of democracy
Constitutional designs as visions of majoritarian or proportional democracy
Accountability: conditions for citizen control
Conditions for mandates: identifiability and majority
A vision of dispersed political power: authorized representation in policy making
Testing the vision: responsiveness in selecting governments and policymakers
Citizen preferences and party positions
The majoritarian policy vision: decisive elections, governments, and the median citizen
The proportional influence vision: representing the median citizen through a multistage process
Overview of the elections as instruments of democracy.