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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009022178
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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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Health and Democracy
Besley, Timothy; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
This paper explores these issues further by reconsidering the link between democracy and health using panel data from a … cross-section of countries. The data show a strong (conditional) correlation between life expectancy and democracy. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248806
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Political Institutions and Policy Competition
Besley, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
The theme of this year's WDR is how to structure institutions to bring about an effectively functioning market economy. There is no question that political institutions play a key role here. In most countries political institutions determine the rules of access to considerable discretionary...
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