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The democratic contribution of participatory budgeting
Cabannes, Yves; Lipietz, Barbara - 2015
management and local democracy worldwide. With more than 3,000 experiences recorded in over forty countries, PB is gradually …
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Marketization and democracy in China
Liew, Leong H. - 2000
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Buying off the revolution : democratization, social movements and redistribution
López Uribe, Maria del Pilar - 2023
This paper shows that franchise extension is not enough for commitment to redistribution and that in the absence of de facto empowerment, the threat of revolution is intact. In particular, the paper studies the relationship between a democratic reform that extends the political rights of a...
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Because she never let them in : Irish immigration a century ago and today
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2013
A century ago, and for most of the twentieth century, Ireland was a land of emigration, not immigration. However, in the space of less than a decade in the 2000s, Ireland was transformed from a homogeneous community, where nonnative residents were in a very small minority, to one in which...
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Irish attitudes to immigration during and after the boom
Denny, Kevin; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2013
Given the huge size, relatively speaking, of the human influx into Ireland over the past decade or so, the evolution of Irish attitudes to immigration is of more than parochial interest. In this paper we use the six rounds of the European Social Survey (2002-2012) in seeking to account for those...
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Can social pressure stifle free speech?
Morales, Juan S.; Samahita, Margaret - 2023
This paper studies public opinion in the context of strong social norms that can induce conformity and self-censorship. We present a model that highlights how social pressure can affect the public expression of opinion either through a change in publicly stated views (conformity) or by inducing...
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A Chinese way of democratization?
Yao, Yang - 2009
With an equal social structure, China seems to be better prepared for a functioning democracy than other developing … countries. It has stayed authoritarian because the CCP has successfully diverted the demand for democratization through tactics … inevitably bring about forces and elements arguing and even fighting for democratization. As a result, there are more democratic …
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Grassroots democracy and local governance : evidence from rural China
Wang, Shuna; Yao, Yang - 2009
This paper studies the impacts of village elections on the accountability of the village committee, local fiscal sharing, and state taxation in rural China using data of 48 villages for the period of 19862002. Elections are found to substantially increase the share of public expenditures in the...
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Forced migration and social cohesion : evidence from the 2015/16 mass inflow in Germany
Albarosa, Emanuele; Elsner, Benjamin - 2023
A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of asylum seekers on several indicators of social cohesion. In 2015/16, over one million asylum seekers from Syria,...
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Transformation from below in Bolivia and Bangladesh : decentralization, local governance, and systemic change
Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2015
only decentralization, but also democracy, from the bottom up. Beginning with Bolivia, I explore the deep economic and …
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