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Chain of legitimacy : constitution making in Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2016

national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …

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Culture, institutions & the long divergence

Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021

(over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious …

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Perceived legitimacy and motivation effects of authority

Herz, Holger; Zihlmann, Christian - 2024

legitimacy of organizational structure. To this end, we design a laboratory experiment in which we exogenously manipulate the … organizational structure in a way that leaves the incentives of all individuals unaffected, but changes the perceived legitimacy of … incentive effects and that the observed changes are significantly associated with changes in perceived legitimacy. …

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Political stability and fiscal policy : time series evidence for the Swiss federal level since 1849

Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2009

This paper explores the role of political stability on fiscal policy choices in a time-series analysis over 158 years on the Swiss federal level. We argue that the fiscal-commons problem of public finances is affected by the time-horizon of a finance minister. Arguably, the incentives for an...

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Determinants of constitutional change : why do countries change their form of governments?

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2010

A country's form of government has important economic and political consequences, but the determinants that lead countries to choose either parliamentary or presidential systems are largely unexplored. This paper studies this choice by analyzing the factors that make countries switch from...

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The assignment of powers in an open-ended European Union

Salmon, Pierre - 2003

A major characteristic of the European Union is its transitional or evolving nature, in particular with regard to the assignment of powers between the two main levels of government. More precisely, under current constitutional arrangements, this evolving nature takes the form of an integration...

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The role of direct democracy in the European Union

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2003

In this paper, the introduction of direct-democratic decision-making in all EU decisions is considered when it is feasible without prohibitively increasing decision-making costs. We start with the contractarian argument that each constitution is a contract joining the citizens of a state and...

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Constitution on ice

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2014

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...

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Explaining constitutional change : the case of judicial independence

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2012

This paper studies the factors driving changes in judicial independence (JI) as incorporated in constitutions. Two indicators of constitutionally safeguarded JI are constructed. Variations in these indicators are identified based on changes in the constitutions of as many as 100 countries that...

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From collapse to constitution : the case of Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2012

Most of the time, crises precede constitutions. Following a brief review of relevant historical background, this 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....

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