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Checks and balances : enforcing constitutional constraints
Holcombe, Randall G. - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 4/57, pp. 1-12
Constitutional political economy has focused heavily on designing constitutional rules sufficient to constrain governmental power. More attention has been devoted to designing rules that are effective constraints than on the institutions that would be required to enforce them. One problem is...
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Non-majoritarian institutions - a menace to constitutional democracy?
Voigt, Stefan - 2023
, they have been criticized as promoting technocracy to the detriment of democracy. A number of political scientists even … direct democracy, representative democracy, and expert decision-making. …
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Liberal constitutionalism, constitutional liberalism and democracy
Vanberg, Viktor - 2009
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Liberal constitutionalism, constitutional liberalism and democracy
Vanberg, Viktor J. - In: Constitutional political economy 22 (2011) 1, pp. 1-20
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Constitutional Spaces
Erbsen, Allan - 2011
This Article is the first to systematically consider the Constitution’s identification, definition, and integration of … the physical spaces in which it applies. Knowing how the Constitution addresses a particular problem often requires … knowing where the problem arises. Yet despite the importance and pervasiveness of spatial references in the Constitution …
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Regulation of Europe's network industries : the perspective of the new economic theory of federalism
Bickenbach, Frank - 2000
The paper starts with a description of major reforms of EU policy in the network industries. Based on the normative economics of regulation, it then points out generic information and transaction cost problems of regulatory policy making. An appropriate allocation of regulatory competencies may...
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Die Verfassung der Freiheit
Hayek, Friedrich A. von - 2005 - 4. Auflage, (erneut durchgesehen)
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Constitutional democracy, individual liberty, and political equality
Buchanan, James M. - 1985
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The impact of referendums on the centralisation of public goods provision : a political economy approach
Schnellenbach, Jan; Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2007 - This version: May 2007
likely through representative democracy. In the non-cooperative case, the more extensive possibilities for institutional … design under representative democracy increase the likelihood of centralisation. Direct democracy may thus be interpreted as …
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Happy Voters
Liberini, Federica - 2014
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
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