There is now a considerable body of literature on decentralization in diverse national contexts. Ascertaining factors that drive local accountability and performance have been the key concerns of these studies. Diverse ethodological instruments and approaches have been used—from large-n...

Many commentators have noted the existence of a historical correlation between cities and democratization. This image of the city as an inherently civic space is linked to the notion that the spatial concentration intrinsic to urban contexts promotes a democracy of proximity. Seen from this...

AI is now an important component of sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, public administration and transportation, and is helping to address major challenges such as ageing and climate change. However, there is currently a lack of transparency in algorithmic governance systems, and this is...

<b>RESUMEN:</b><br> <br> Este trabajo pretende ofrecer una visión alternativa a la historiografía tradicional centrada en el estudio de aquellas regiones más industrializadas, identificándose a los protagonistas de aquellas protestas laborales con el grueso de trabajadores cualificados situados en esas...

The path to a diverse, wealthy, fair, just, and peaceful society.Replacing socialism, capitalism, and all variations, offering the first science-based, ideological, and sociological structure, with supporting economic and social policy to enable improved life experience for all citizens.Only...

Finance has become more a problem than a solution to what the world most wants: socially inclusive growth. It has become a source of crises that threaten the development of the real economy. It has escaped accountability to democratic institutions and often helped, instead, to influence and...

Going beyond the deeply examined non-distribution constraint, which refers to the right to residual income, the paper investigates the other side of ownership, i.e. the right to residual control, to discover a general economic rationale for what we call “democracy”: a collective...

This article offers insights into the eurozone, one of the most challenging experiments toward market and political integration through a single monetary unit — namely, the euro. However, whereas markets might be fully integrated even without a common European currency, the euro and its...

The paper deals with the issue of lobbying, defined as a democratic means of promoting interests. The text tries to find answers to the problems in the current economic theory. The basic links are defined by using a simple graphic model, which are further examined by the SWOT analysis. The...

This paper examines theses of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum about the importance of pursuing goals of social justice through the capability approach. Are considered here the reasons of such a method, whose aim is to reach development of the capabilities of every human being. It is discussed...