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Constitutional monarchy as power sharing

Tridimas, George - In: Constitutional political economy 32 (2021) 4, pp. 431-461

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Using Acemoglu and Robinson's concept to assess Leviathans in CECCs in the long term

Matera, Rafał - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 3, pp. 63-89

The main objective of the paper is to use the following terms of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson - Despotic, Real, Paper, Shackled Leviathans - to check and evaluate the state of democracy, governance and social power in Central and Eastern European Countries (CECCs). Six states were included...

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К общей теории социально-экономического развития

Polterovich, Victor - 2018

A new approach to understanding social and economic development is proposed, based on consideration of the evolution of coordination mechanisms. The work consists of two parts. In the first part, a critical analysis of four recently proposed theories of social development, focusing on...

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Democracy Under the Tsars? The Case of the Zemstvo

Nafziger, Steven - Economics Department, Williams College - 2008

The emancipation of the serfs is often viewed as watershed moment in 19th-century Russian history. However, this reform was accompanied by numerous others measures aimed at modernizing the Tsarist economy and society. Among these "Great Reforms" was the creation of a new institution of local...

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China in Context : Energy, Water, and Climate Cooperation

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2014

Climate resilient communities can be achieved with the support of global research, development, deployment, and diffusion of environmentally sound low GHG emission technologies and processes. Technology cooperation should lower emissions remaining mindful of biodiversity, ecosystem services and...

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Emerging Law Addressing Climate Change and Water

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015

The World Economic Forum recognizes that while restrictions on energy affect water systems and vise versa, energy and water policy are rarely coordinated. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that wet places will become wetter and dry places will become dryer. Transboundary water,...

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From High to Low Stakes Politics : Should Majoritarians Embrace Countermajoritarian Constitutional Provisions?

Weingast, Barry R. - 2018

Robert Dahl asked, How Democratic is the United States Constitution? (2001). To address this question, Dahl embraces majoritarian democracy as his normative standard. Because the framers designed the U.S. Constitution with a wide array of constraints on majorities, Dahl’s answer is, not very....

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The Origins of Democracy : A Model with Application to Ancient Greece

Fleck, Robert K.; Hanssen, F. Andrew - 2002

This paper seeks to provide an improved understanding of the origins of democracy. It begins by developing a theoretical model to demonstrate how exogenous economic conditions can influence both the incentives to establish democratic institutions and the likelihood that such institutions...

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How and Why Economies Develop and Grow : Lessons from Preindustrial Europe and China

Kohn, Meir - 2010

Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...

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Why Some Democracies are Headed by a Monarch?

Tridimas, George - 2014

liberal opposition to share office rents, while the alternative to the negotiation is a violent conflict that ends with either … deposition of the monarchy or absolute rule by the monarch. A model of conflict between the king and the liberal opposition is … explored where conflict for office rents is a costly contest with probabilistic outcomes and results in a reduction of …

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