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This paper employs a multidisciplinary social sciences approach to analyse the political power of contemporary economic … them, directly or indirectly, into power or influence. This paper makes use of the classical concepts of structural and … instrumental power to explain the sources of their influence in democratic decision-making processes. I claim that a powerful and …
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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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This article explores Protestantism's inadvertent, historic role in dispersing elite power and spurring democracy … printing and civil society and spurred competitors to copy. Resultant power dispersion altered elite incentives and increased …
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While persistence of political dynasties in a democracy has received attention, the performance of dynasts remains unstudied. using a regression discontinuity (RD) framework, we compare dynastic representatives, who defeat non-dynastic candidates by a close margin with non-dynastic...
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Neueste Enthüllungsreportage des bekannten investigativen Journalisten, die vom Machtmissbrauch der deutschen Elite in … Machtmissbrauch der deutschen Elite dar. Seine Recherchen bieten erneut explosiven Gesprächsstoff, wenn es darum geht, wie höchste …
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