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The aim of this paper is to determine which country-specific characteristics promote and which impede the adoption of institutions. On the basis of a broad panel of 183 countries for the period between 1996 and 2010, we test whether there are tendencies towards a general improvement and towards...
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, as a matter of the contemporary Euro American economic value system: freedom and justice; responsibility and confidence …; progress, prosperity and rationality. An important methodological basis of presented reflection is the Ethics of social … consequences dynamically developing consequentialist ethical theory, responding to the challenges arising in the field of applied …
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This paper deals with Rousseau's idea of freedom in terms of rationality and deliberation. It gives support to Berlin …'s interpretation of the general will as a rational and objective will but dismisses the idea that Rousseau's theory necessarily leads …
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abilities to perceive and evaluate, are, at least in part, chosen. Freedom is acquired by deciding which abilities of perception …
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wrong-headed view of rationality. …
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We investigate the possible explanations of variations in aggregate levels of participation in large-scale political demonstrations. A simple public choice inspired model is applied to data derived from the annual May Day demonstrations of the Danish labour movement and socialist parties taking...
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This study analyzes leading research in behavioral economics to see whether it contains advocacy of paternalism and whether it addresses the potential cognitive limitations and biases of the policymakers who are going to implement paternalist policies. The findings reveal that 20.7% of the...
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This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two ideologically different political parties compete for power. Their primary instrument in this competition are programmatic concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any...
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