and implement public policies, we show that examination takes place in spite of, rather than thanks to, elections …. Elections are needed as a carrot and a stick to motivate politicians, yet politicians who are overly interested in re …

threat to social order and democracy posed by Facebook and Google, as well as others in the internet space. Facebook, and …

threat to social order and democracy posed by Facebook and Google, as well as others in the internet space. Facebook, and …

democratic elections. An information market is used to predict the long-term performance of a policy, while threshold contracts …

Representative democracy gives voters the right to influence who governs but its influence on policy making is only …

Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from … elections on local economic growth in Indonesia by using a quasi-experimental research method. The first direct elections of …. Thus, growth in districts that have had their first elections of district heads can be compared with growth in districts …

We explore the effect of oil import price shocks on political outcomes using a worldwide dataset on elections of chief …

difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities … democracy. We survey a long period in the quest for such new forms and point to next inventions for such forms. We suggest to … experiment with new ways for democracy to extend the choice of democratic processes that can be implemented in real …

We investigate the effect of elections on underreporting COVID-19 mortality, measured as the difference between excess … onset of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the asymmetric electoral schedule of presidential elections around the world …, in which some countriesfaced the pandemic with upcoming elections in the next two years, while others did not have this …