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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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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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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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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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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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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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's constitution. Using historical data dating back to the 19th century and applying a difference-in-difference approach we find that … instrumenting the probability of having budget rules on de jure constraints on changing the constitution. This and other tests …
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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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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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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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