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not binding rules which preclude particular actions by government, but as constraints which reduce the likelihood of …
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Some scholars have argued that the Framers of the U.S. Constitution did not have a common set of views on economics, or … that the Constitution, except perhaps in isolated clauses, does not reflect any specific economic views. The principal …. These economic views permeate the Constitution and are not manifest only in odd clauses. The Framers designed many features …
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The citizen assembly of the Swiss canton Glarus decided to radically reduce the historical number of communes from 25 to three. Studies show that the financial and economic consequences are surprisingly small. This paper analyzes the effects on citizens’ vote participation as an indicator of...
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social actors involved in those processes. In particular, the paper addresses how political rules work for or against …
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The capacity to sustain policies over time and the capacity to adjust policies in the face of changing circumstances are two desirable properties of policymaking systems. The veto player approach has suggested that polities with more veto players will have the capacity to sustain policies at the...
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While economists have tended to focus on specific public policies when developing recommendations, the achievement of welfare objectives might depend more on the quality of policies than their content. This paper develops several measures of the qualities of policies across countries, arguing...
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This paper introduces preliminary evidence from a cross-country database of policy characteristics and potential uses of that database. While most databases have emphasized either the content of policies (e.g., size of government deficits) or countries' formal institutions (e.g., political...
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This paper introduces preliminary evidence from a cross-country database of policy characteristics and potential uses of that database. While most databases have emphasized either the content of policies (e.g., size of government deficits) or countries&' formal institutions (e.g., political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794706
While economists have tended to focus on specific public policies when developing recommendations, the achievement of welfare objectives might depend more on the quality of policies than their content. This paper develops several measures of the qualities of policies across countries, arguing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844598
While economists have tended to focus on specific public policies when developing recommendations, the achievement of welfare objectives might depend more on the quality of policies than their content. This paper develops several measures of the qualities of policies across countries, arguing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133917