for this political skewing of the markets chiefly lies with democracy. Through its commitment to equality and its … inclination towards fiscal profligacy, democracy hinders the markets from acting as a greater force for social good. To fix this … skewing of finance, democracy’s troubling tendencies must be squarely faced and curbed by a return to its monetary roots …

, civil, political and social, and examines Chile's transition to democracy during the 1990s as a typical case of the modern …

Saving Capitalism and Democracy tries to answer the difficult questions posed by intellectuals, the media, politicians …

History: Athenian Democracy -- Echoes of Democracy in Ancient Rome -- Revival of Democracy in Italian Mediaval City …-Republics -- Enlightenment and the End of Traditional Democracy -- Modernity and Schism in Understanding Democracy -- Theory: Direct Democracy … -- Dictatorship and Democracy -- Representative Democracy -- Statistically Testing the Representative Capacity -- Concluding …

democratization/de-democratization -- Investigating the Classical Ombudsman within the Indian Context -- The Imperatives of Democracy … they relate to corruption, and also whether democracy should be based on universal principles or local context and …

Knowledge democracy is an emerging concept that addresses the relationships between knowledge production and … dissemination, as well as the functions of the media and democratic institutions. Although democracy has been the most successful … concept of governance for societies for the last two centuries, representative democracy, which became the hallmark of …

Befunde -- 4.1 Eingrenzung des Untersuchungsobjekts -- 4.2 Vorstellung der Perspektive-Deutschland-Umfrage -- 4 …, in welchem Zusammenhang Migrationsneigung und regionale Rahmenbedingungen in Deutschland stehen. Zur Überprüfung seiner … Hypothesen verwendet er das äußerst umfangreiche und repräsentative Datenmaterial der Perspektive-Deutschland-Umfrage 2001 mit ca …

This work exploits the natural experiment provided by the unexpected disintegration of socialist East Germany to study … correlation approach, annual district-level migration data for 1991 and 1992 and unique rental price indicators from Germany … various exogenous origin-region push factors related to the deteriorating economic conditions in East Germany yield estimates …

This book analyzes the consequences that would arise if Germany’s means-tested unemployment benefits were replaced with … Negative Income Tax -- A Negative Income Tax Proposal for Germany -- Modeling Political Reforms: The Discrete Approach to Labor …

history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's leading economic and business historians, Werner Plumpe, who places …. German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Century shows that Germany's economic history still warrants the … of Systems Theory -- 9. Germany as an Industrial Country 1945-2008 -- Part IV: The History of Industrial Relations -- 10 …