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difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities … democracy. We survey a long period in the quest for such new forms and point to next inventions for such forms. We suggest to … experiment with new ways for democracy to extend the choice of democratic processes that can be implemented in real …
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We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …
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fixed ex post, but this is what the Icelandic Parliament is at present trying to do, flirting with a farewell to democracy. …
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Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social science research in recent years. In this study, we examine whether there is gender gap in voting behavior in Turkey. Using European Social Survey data, we find that education level...
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Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …
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quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …
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During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...
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constitutional bill are impossible to establish, an analysis of the Icelandic constitution-writing efforts as 'digital democracy …
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discussion of the pros and cons of direct democracy, the ability of direct democracy to help creating a European demos is …
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There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...
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