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Zu neueren Entwicklungen bei der Einbeziehung privater Akteure in Prozesse der öffentlichen Verwaltung: Einige Bemerkungen
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2014
More recently, new modes of collaboration between private and public agents have been developed which provide new possibilities for private interests to influence political processes. These are: (i) intermediate institutions, (ii) direct involvement of private agents in preparing legislative...
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Direkte Demokratie
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2010
The current debt crisis in many OECD countries calls for adequate strategies in budget consolidation. To regain fiscal solvency many governments base their fiscal adjustments at least partly on spending cuts. A common political claim is that spending cuts rely too much on investment thereby...
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Sanfter Paternalismus, meritorische Güter, und der normative Individualismus
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2012
Paternalism is an attempt to influence the decisions of individuals for their own benefit even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to be a contradiction to normative individualism which provides the general or ientation of our modern demo cracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168397
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Das zukünftige Verhältnis von Kapitalismus und Demokratie aus ökonomischer Sicht
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2015
Whether democracy or capitalism should have normative priority depends on the philosophi- cal point of view but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168452
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The effect of direct democratic institutions on income redistribution : evidence from Switzerland
Feld, Lars P. (contributor);  … - 2007 - Revised Version, May 2007
the main focus is on comparison between different forms of representative democracy, the influence of direct democracy on …, we find that direct democracy is particularly associated with lower welfare spending. Moreover, we estimate a model which … a given initial income distribution. -- Income Redistribution ; Direct Democracy ; Referendums ; Initiatives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003604531
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Soft paternalism, merit goods, and normative individualism
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2015
Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals’ decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318409
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Direct democracy : chances and challenges
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2015 - Extended written version, May 2015
the functioning of direct democracy. As a political system it only makes sense if there exists a continuous process and … not if only occasional single questions are brought to a referendum. Then, the relation between direct democracy and the … points that should be observed to safeguard the well-functioning of direct democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528966
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The effect of direct democracy on income redistribution : evidence for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Fischer, Justina A. V.; Kirchgässner, … - 2006
the main focus is on comparison between different forms of representative democracy, the influence of direct democracy on … representative democracies. In this paper, we find that institutions of direct democracy are associated with lower public spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779085
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The effect of direct democratic institutions on income redistribution : evidence from Switzerland
Feld, Lars P. (contributor);  … - 2008
the main focus is on comparison between different forms of representative democracy, the influence of direct democracy on … representative democracies. In this paper, we find that institutions of direct democracy are associated with lower public spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771335
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Sanfter Paternalismus, meritorische Güter, und der normative Individualismus
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2012
Paternalism is an attempt to influence the decisions of individuals for their own benefit even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to be a contradiction to normative individualism which provides the general orientation of our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556362