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Heritage Foundation <United States>

For over a decade, The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, Washington's preeminent think tank, have tracked the march of economic freedom around the world with the influential Index of Economic Freedom. Since 1995, the Index has brought Smith's theories about liberty, prosperity and...

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Treiber der direkten Demokratie: Welche Faktoren trieben die Einführung und Entwicklung der direktenDemokratie in der Schweiz voran?

Sprecher, Jürg - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2007

... Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, mögliche Treiber der direkten Demokratie zuskizzieren und zu untersuchen, welche …

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Demokratiepolitische Potentiale des Internet in Deutschland

Muzic, Suzana; Schwickert, Axel C. - Universität <Mainz> / Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine … - 1998

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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Institutionalization of a general electronic democracy through electronic democratic parties - a general concept with focus on Germany

Gronau, Norbert; Weber, Edzard; Uslar, Mathias - 2005

Not only the public services are able to ensure the effective and efficient use of e-democracy tools. This contribution … the parliament by the delegates of the party. The electronic democracy contributes, in order to supplement the … representative democracy, scalable around direct democratic elements. The citizens can determine all 4 or 5 years with the national …

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Contesting Democracy: Science Popularisation and Public Choice

Adams, Jon - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

healthy participatory democracy under such conditions meant keeping the voting public involved – and science popularisation …

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Diversity and the Power of the Elites in Democratic Societies: A Model and a Test

Bandiera, Oriana; Levy, Gilat - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

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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Are Human Rights and Economic Well-Being Substitutes? Evidence from Migration Patterns across the Indian States

Libman, Aleksandr M.; Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten; Yadav, … - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2011

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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Evolving Preferences andPolicy Advice in Democratic Society

Vanberg, Viktor - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften - 2009

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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Internal and external political competition

Hugh-Jones, David - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

subjects may exit. In a simple model, both kinds of competitionare substitutes. Internal competition (democracy) benefits …

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Do Democracies Select More Educated Leaders?

Besley, Timothy; Reynal-Querol, Marta - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

democracy to show thatdemocracies pick more highly educated leaders. The results are ro-bust to a wide range of speci …cations, controls and ways of measuringeducation and democracy.[...] …

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