legitimacy-trap. An elected convention would probably be more democratic, because such an institution would be more public as …

stronger than Maskin monotonicity. We study three such processes: oligarchy, oligarchic democracy and random sampling … social choice rule (SCR) that cannot be implemented by any oligarchy. Oligarchic democracy "almost always" collects the … opinions of the oligarchs but sometimes, there is a referendum (i.e., everyone's opinions are collected). We show that in …

By examining voting behavior in a referendum on the construction of a concert hall in Germany, I show that political …

We analyze the factors that influence the support for environmental policy proposals. Swiss referendum data show that … associations, if environmental preferences are strong and economic conditions are favorable at the time of the referendum. Also …

This paper describes institutions of direct democracy between 1997 and 2003 in 26 Swiss cantons (states), specifically … the statutory initiative and referendum, the constitutional initiative, and the fiscal referendum. In particular, it …-legislative institutions are distinguished. This paper also provides calculations of the index and sub-indices of direct democracy for the …