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Satisfaction not guaranteed : institutions and satisfaction with democracy in Western Europe
Wagner, Alexander F.; Dufour, Mathias; Schneider, Friedrich - 2003
What determines citizens satisfaction with the constitution in operation ? We make two contributions towards an answer to this important policy question. First, we place stronger emphasis than existing studies on quantitative interpretations of the importance of different factors. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507684
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Satisfaction not guaranteed : institutions and satisfaction with democracy in Western Europe
Wagner, Alexander F.; Dufour, Mathias; Schneider, Friedrich - 2003
This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of macroeconomic adjustment, general market deregulation, and promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure. The wave of state divestitures reached Italy later...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001750327
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Subsidiarity, federalism, and direct democracy as basic elements of a federal European constitution : some ideas using constitutional economics
Schneider, Friedrich; Wagner, Alexander F. - In: Rules and reason : perspectives on constitutional …, (pp. 289-311). 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001594296
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Die Entwicklung der Sozialpolitik in repräsentativen und in direkten Demokratien - Königsweg oder Sackgasse? : Einige Bemerkungen aus der "Public Choice"-Perspektive
Schneider, Friedrich - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 135 (1999) 3, pp. 387-406
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With or against the people? : the impact of a bottom-up approach on tax morale and the shadow economy
Torgler, Benno (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799205
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Why does environmental policy in representative democracies tend to be inadequate? : a preliminary public choice analysis
Kollmann, Andrea; Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
There is a widespread consensus among the most important players in developed countries (voters, politicians, producers, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699051
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Beyond the veil of ignorance : the influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy
Schneider, Friedrich; Teobaldelli, Désirée - 2012
economies. The framework developed predicts a negative relationship between the degree of direct democracy and the size of the … quantitatively important; the results are robust and also depend on the interaction of direct democracy with other political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503812
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Warum ist die Umweltpolitik in repräsentativen Demokratien unzureichend? : eine Public-Choice Analyse
Kollmann, Andrea; Schneider, Friedrich - In: Glaube und Rationalität in der Krise : Symposium zu …, (pp. 151-199). 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009382519
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Satisfaction not guaranteed : institutions and satisfaction with democracy in Western Europe
Schneider, Friedrich; Wagner, Alexander F.; Dufour, Mathias - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009749604
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The influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy
Teobaldelli, Désirée; Schneider, Friedrich - 2013
development of shadow economies. Our model suggests that, as the extent of direct democracy increases, implemented fiscal policies … theory implies a negative relationship between the extent of direct democracy and the size of the country's shadow economy …. We also theorize that direct democracy has a greater effect in reducing the informal sector when the former is at low or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193309