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This paper develops an approach to studying how bias in favor ofone party due to the pattern of electoral districting affects policy choice.We tie a commonly used measure of electoral bias to the theory of partycompetition and show how this affects party strategy in theory. Theusefulness of the...
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Starke Marken schaffen Vertrauen und haben Orientierungsfunktion in einem nur schwerüberschaubaren Produkt- und Dienstleistungsangebot. Der Erfolg einer Marke steht dabei inenger Beziehung zu der Fähigkeit, in ihrem Zielsegment immer wieder neue Maßstäbe zusetzen. Damit wird die Innovation...
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Financial Secretary Stephen Timms considers Labour’s response to the financial crisis and looks forward to what his party is doing to secure the recovery.[...]
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Wie kaum eine andere technologische Entwicklung trägt das Internet zur Diskussion des gesellschaftlichen Wandels und des Aufbruchs in die Informationsgesellschaft bei. Die letzten Jahrzehnte sind geprägt durch einen starken Medienwandel, der sich als folgenreich für Gesellschaft und Politik...
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Not only the public services are able to ensure the effective and efficient use of e-democracy tools. This contribution points out how a party must be structured to function as a neutral service provider for the citizen to set the results of electronic decision-making processes generally...
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During the same period in which political decisions became increasingly indistinguishable from decisions about science and technology, science and technology became increasingly incomprehensible to all but a few specialists. Maintaining a healthy participatory democracy under such conditions...
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This paper analyzes whether political outcomes in local democracies are determinedby the preferences of the median -typically poor- agents or whether they reflect thewishes of the wealthy elites. A model shows that when politicians belonging to differentgroups can form coalitions, the wealthy...
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The aim of the paper is to study the relation between the demand for human rights and foreconomic prosperity. It analyzes the demand not, as it is often done in the literature, from the“voice” perspective (political activity), but rather looks at the “exit” perspective...
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Beyond its explanatory ambitions as positive science, economics has always had its normativeor applied branch that aims at providing advice about how man’s socio-economic conditionmight be improved. Under the name welfare economics the discipline’s normative branch hasbeen formalized, in the...
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All rulers face political competition, both from rivals within their state, andfrom other states to which their subjects may exit. In a simple model, both kinds of competitionare substitutes. Internal competition (democracy) benefits citizens by allowingthem to replace rent-seeking rulers. But...
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