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Institutional change and legitimacy via urban elections? : people's awareness of elections and participation in Urban neighbourhoods (Shequ)
Heberer, Thomas - 2006
This paper analyses institutional reforms and political participation, most notably indirect and direct elections of … awareness and participation. For instance, they make people voice more opinions in their shequ, which may be a good starting …. Whilst 'security first, participation second' seems to be the order of the day and the 'freedom of politics' is still more …
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Political participation in the USSR
Friedgut, Theodore H. - 1979
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Mexican-American civic organizations. Political participation and political attitudes
Rodriguez, Roy C. - 1978
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Patterns of political participation in Italy
Galli, Giorgio; Prandi, Alfonso - 1970
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Co-voting democracy
Gersbach, Hans - 2016 - This version: August 2016
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Local electoral rules and political participation
Barone, Guglielmo; De Blasio, Guido - 2010
The paper investigates the effect of local electoral rules on the political participation of the residents, as … participation. The magnitude of the effect is estimated at between 1 and 3 percentage points. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548163
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Links of interest of Swiss MPs : a comprehensive dataset
Péclat, Martin; Puddu, Stefano - 2015
This study provides a comprehensive, accurate and ready-to-use dataset on the relationships between the members of the Swiss Parliament and groups of interests. We capture politicians' linkages exploiting (1) their mandates in legal entities; (2) the enterprises, associations or other...
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Dangerous Liaisons: interests groups and politicians' votes : a Swiss perspective
Puddu, Stefano; Péclat, Martin - 2015
Using a unique dataset, based on the 49th Swiss legislature, we assess lobbying effect on politicians' votes. Counselors' ties are approximated by their mandates in in legal entities. Political representatives' fidelity to their political group is measured by a dummy proximity indicator. We find...
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Direct voting and proxy voting
Green-Armytage, James - In: Constitutional political economy 26 (2015) 2, pp. 190-220
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Participatory decision making : a field experiment on manipulating the votes
Spada, Paolo; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2010
Many believe that deliberative democracy, where individuals discuss alternatives before voting on them, should result in collectively superior outcomes because voters become better informed and decisions are justified using reason. These deliberations typically involve a moderator, however,...
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