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No 110/2011 Eine Demokratische Reformkonzeption: Mehr Einfluss für die Bürger und mehr Fachkompetenz und Langfristigkeit bei politischen Entscheidungen
Kruse, Jörn - Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt … - 2011
-Verdrossenheit sind weit verbreitet. Die Bürger äußern zwar eine sehr große Zustimmung zur Demokratie allgemein, aber nicht zu den …. Im Kern handelt es sich um Probleme der institutionellen Gestaltung unserer Demokratie. Insofern ist es vor dem … werden, und die zur Stärkung der Demokratie führen sollen. Dies reicht von kleineren Modi-fikationen des Wahlrechts über …
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E-democracy and knowledge : a multicriteria framework for the new democratic era
Moreno-Jiménez, José María; Polasek, Wolfgang - 2003
This paper analyses a new framework for decision-making in e-democracies that exploits the power of Internet based public knowledge, which is called briefly e-cognocracy. This is not a procedure to improve technical aspects using the Internet (e.g. e-voting); it is rather a procedure to add a...
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Information, polarization and delegation in democracy
Schultz, Christian - 2003
This paper investigates the merits of different democratic institutions when politics is uni-dimensional, there is uncertainty both about the preferences of the future electorate and the future polarization of political parties, and politicians have better information about the state of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404317
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Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions : evidence from Indonesia's election reform
Al Izzati, Ridho; Dartanto, Teguh; Suryadarma, Daniel; … - 2024
People's trust in state and political institutions is a key foundation of a well-functioning economy. We estimate the impact of direct elections on people's trust in state and political institutions, using a major political reform in Indonesia as the source of exogenous variation. Prior to 2005,...
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Incumbency, party identity and governmental lead : evidence for heterogeneous incumbency effects for Germany
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - 2011
Do incumbents in an election have an advantage, and if so, are these advantages heterogeneous across parties or government and opposition? We first present a theoretical discussion on the possible heterogeneity of incumbency effects in a pure two-party system. Then, we estimate the incumbency...
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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011
This paper explores the interdependency of political institutions from the voter's perspective. Specifically, we are interested in three questions: (1) Does the partisan identity of the local mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election?; (2) Does this partisan...
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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011 - This Version: August 30, 2011
This paper explores the interdependency of political institutions from the voter's perspective. Specifically, we are interested in: (1) Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election?; (2) Does this partisan identity influence the...
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Voting suffrage and the political budget cycle : evidence from the London Metropolitan Boroughs 1902 - 1937
Aidt, Toke; Mooney, Graham - 2014
We study the opportunistic political budget cycle in the London Metropolitan Boroughs between 1902 and 1937 under two different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting evidence that the political budget cycle operates...
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Vor der Europawahl: wie lässt sich die demokratische Legitimität verbessern?
In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 4, pp. 239-257
Bei der Wahl zum Europäischen Parlament am 25. Mai 2014 treten die Parteien zum ersten Mal mit Spitzenkandidaten an, die - vorausgesetzt ihre Parteien erhalten eine Mehrheit vom Europäischen Rat - als Kommissionspräsidenten vorgeschlagen werden sollen. Diese Neuerung, die auf den...
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