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aspect is an essential element of even the ‘thinnest' theories of democracy, yet is conspicuously absent in the EU …
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The European response to the financial cum fiscal crisis in the Eurozone is leading to a democratic crisis of the state. It has exposed a tension between the national and the supranational in a multi-level polity whilst opening up new political cleavages between the core and periphery of Europe....
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deficit?” Is it, in other words, advisable to shift the focus away from (or beyond) democracy to a (search for a) more …
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This paper is concerned with analysing the history of the spread of democracy and its current health with a view to the … democratic deficit in the context of the institutions of the European Union. The paper largely draws on the history of democracy … what is meant by democracy. This is followed by a historical survey of the emergence of democracy as a common form of …
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Despite the growing public debate on fiscal surprise during election periods in jurisdictions where the democratic dispensation is young, comprehensive empirical works to this effect in the case of Africa are hard to find. This study, therefore, sought to contribute to the debate on two counts....
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This paper investigates the impact of democracy on public debt in the Arab world over the period 2002-2013. The results … confirm the existence of an inverted-U relationship between democracy and public debt. This supports the hypothesis that some … level of democracy is required to control public debt. …
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This essay re-examines the dual – republican and liberal – foundations of democratic legitimacy in the Western traditions of normative political theory. Considered in isolation, the European Union conforms to liberal standards but cannot satisfy republican criteria. Given these conflicting...
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