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-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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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...
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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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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
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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Formal work on the electoral model often suggests that parties or candidates should locate themselves at the electoral center (or origin). Recent research has found no evidence of such convergence. In order to explain non-convergence, the stochastic electoral model is extended by including...
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Two specialists on the electoral geography of post-Soviet Russia analyze spatial voting patterns from the March 2000 Russian presidential election by reference to the underlying socioeconomic traits of Russia?s regions. In an effort to gauge the extent to which regional variations in voter...
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Historically, elections in emerging markets are perceived as chaotic and volatile for investment performance. In this paper we explore the performance and volatility of equity and foreign exchange markets in emerging economies during election cycles. We evaluated returns and volatility four...
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