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This paper reports recent events in Iceland where the political agents of oligarchs didn t even bother to try to … influence, let alone contest, a national referendum on a new constitution because, if they didn t like the result, they would … simply find ways to nullify the outcome ex post. The paper reviews and explains the making of Iceland's crowd …
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This article introduces a novel database that measures governments’ compliance with national constitutions. It combines information on de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we...
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This paper reviews aspects of the constitution making process in Iceland after the financial collapse of 2008 …, emphasizing the differences between the provisional constitution of 1944 when Iceland separated unilaterally from Nazi …-occupied Denmark and Denmark’s 1849 constitution which served, with notable exceptions, as the prototype for Iceland’s 1944 …
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constitutional bill are impossible to establish, an analysis of the Icelandic constitution-writing efforts as ‘digital democracy …’ reveals some important lessons. High-quality input into constitution-making processes through digital participation is …
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To understand Iceland’s political situation, it is necessary to consider the historical background to the post …-crash constitutional revision process launched in 2009. Also, the paper offers a brief account of some aspects of the constitution …
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article aims to show why Iceland, after its financial collapse in 2008, is now at last on the road to adopting a new … constitution to replace the provisional constitution from 1944. The aim is also to show how the constitutional bill of 2011 came … bill as well as why and how it differs from the current constitution. The article concludes by offering a brief discussion …
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Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
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Over the last several decades, both economists and political scientists have shown interest in coups d'état. Numerous studies have been dedicated to understanding the causes of coups. However, model uncertainty still looms large. About one hundred potential determinants of coups have been...
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We use machine-learning methods to study the features and origins of the Baconian program, a cultural and methodological paradigm viewed as providing the intellectual roots for modern economic growth. After building a machine-readable corpus of Bacon's works, we estimate a structural topic...
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This paper isolates the causal effect of policing on group violence, using unique panel data on self-reported crime by soccer and ice hockey hooligans. The problem of reverse causality from violence to policing is solved by two drastic reallocations of the Stockholm Supporter Police unit to...
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