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. Scholarship on international democracy promotion is yet to theorise how democracy can be protected from autocratization. Such a … international relations and comparative politics in the study of democracy promotion. However, such a combined perspective is still … evidence from democratization research. This paper addresses this research gap. It is the first attempt to develop a concept …
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Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized … process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly forgotten procedure to overcome this deficit: Aleatoric Democracy based on … considered. Persons and ideas, being so far disregarded, are taken into account. Democracy becomes vivid and creative, and does …
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The geonomic argument for eco-logic democracy is elaborated and practical parameters are proposed. At the end, a …
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can be expected to voluntarily supply democracy. …
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We study classist societies where the middle class fight over redistribution of public funds with the marginalized and over social policies with the elites. We show that such societies are often deprived of well-defined majoritarian preferences, underscoring the importance of the party system....
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democratization and therefore prefer political institutions with strong veto players. Parallel civilian interests conversely suffer … democratizations are partially planned while most democratization events from civilian autocracy are either unforeseen or poorly … planned. Exploring the characteristics of 111 democratization episodes between 1950 and 2015, I find a number of features …
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Sanford Levinson calls for a new constitutional convention in Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It). This review explains how Levinson overstates the Constitution's defects and understates the risks of submitting it to a...
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The author reviews Acemoglu and Robinson's book, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy …
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Post-World War II, much of international law and comparative law has been directed to the question of securing human …
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evolutionary approach to Democracy highlights new political paradoxes and dilemmas that must be explored, monitored and faced in a …
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