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Experiment on the Demand for Encompassment

Klein, Daniel; Pan, Xiaofei; Houser, Daniel; Schwarz, … - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

The idea of political community is appealing on a gut-level. Hayek suggested that certain genes and instincts still dispose us toward the ethos and mentality of the hunter-gatherer band, and that modern forms of political collectivism have, in part, been atavistic reassertions of such...

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Securing Constitutional Government: The Perpetual Challenge

Ratnapala, Suri - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

Constitutional government is an ideal and like all ideals can only be achieved as an approximation. Even those countries that appear to be near the ideal are revealed on examination to be not so near. Constitutional government, to the extent it is achieved reflects a state of affairs. It remains...

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Capitalistic Competition as a Communicative Community - Why Politics Is Less “Deliberative” than Markets

Wohlgemuth, Michael - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

deliberation, and problems of “cheap talk” (preference falsification, opinion cascades, enclave deliberation). In order to make …

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The Decentralization of Wage Bargaining: Four Cases

Karlson, Nils; Lindberg, Henrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

The paper contributes to the discussion about the possible trends and processes towards decentralization of wage bargaining or wage setting within the OECD-countries since the 1970s. Based on a data set of 16 OECD countries from 1950 to 2000 our results show that in terms of bargaining level the...

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Konkursinstitutet som finansiell institution

Gratzer, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2002

Ett fungerande näringsliv förutsätter ett fungerande konkursinstitut. På en fungerande marknad kan vi vänta oss att ineffektiva företag slås ut genom t.ex. innovativ nyetableringskonkurrens och att de effektiva företagen överlever. En vanlig uppfattning är att konkursinstitutet är ett...

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Notes on the 'Freezing Hypothesis'

Erlingsson, Gissur - Ratioinstitutet - 2007

It is now 40 years since Lipset and Rokkans heavily influential ‘Cleavage Structures…’ was first published. Current research has still made little effort to explain why the ‘freezing’ of party systems these authors observed actually took place. The purpose here is to contribute to this...

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Explaining Party Emergence in Swedish Local Politics 1973–2002

Erlingsson, Gissur Ó. - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

Since individuals demanding formations of new parties face a collective action problem, I inquire why people form new parties, and why this political strategy became increasingly popular between 1973 and 2002 in Swedish municipalities. Case-studies indicate that ‘strong emotions’ – i.e....

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Islam and the Institutions of a Free Society: Many Problems, Little Hope

Voigt, Stefan - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

The rule of law, constitutional democracy, and market economy are taken as the core institutions of free societies …. After arguing that shared values heavily influence institutions, it is asked whether Islamic values are conducive to those … institutions. The values are ascertained via the economic ethics of Islam as lived today and the attitudes of some Muslim …

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Explaining Welfare State Survival: The Role of Economic Freedom and Globalization

Bergh, Andreas - Ratioinstitutet - 2006

Using the economic freedom index and the newly developed KOF-index of globalization, it is shown that the Scandinavian welfare states have experienced faster, bigger and more consistent increases in these areas, compared to the smaller European and the so called liberal welfare states. The...

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Constitutionalism, Division of Power and Transaction Costs

Berggren, Niclas; Karlson, Nils - Ratioinstitutet - 2002

According to many democracy theorists, there is an unavoidable trade-off between constitutionalism and the need for political action. This paper criticizes that belief. Rather, it argues that a division of power, while sometimes entailing high political transaction costs, can nevertheless be...

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