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exploring theoretically and empirically how enlargement of multi-level systems like the EU affects satisfaction with democracy …Studies on EU enlargement mostly focus on its welfare-economic and much less so on its public-choice dimension. Yet … that draws on the probability of being outvoted. We find that, given the institutional arrangement, enlargement tends to …
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exploring theoretically and empirically how enlargement of multi-level systems like the EU affects satisfaction with democracy …Studies on EU enlargement mostly focus on its welfare-economic and much less so on its public-choice dimension. Yet … that draws on the probability of being outvoted. We find that, given the institutional arrangement, enlargement tends to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345519
exploring theoretically and empirically how enlargement of multi-level systems like the EU affects satisfaction with democracy …Studies on EU enlargement mostly focus on its welfare-economic and much less so on its public-choice dimension. Yet … that draws on the probability of being outvoted. We find that, given the institutional arrangement, enlargement tends to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374309
exploring theoretically and empirically how enlargement of multi-level systems like the EU affects satisfaction with democracy …Studies on EU enlargement mostly focus on its welfare-economic and much less so on its public-choice dimension. Yet … that draws on the probability of being outvoted. We find that, given the institutional arrangement, enlargement tends to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856795
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This paper analyzes the provision of public goods with cross-border externalities by representative democracies. The level of provision of each country is decided by a policy maker elected by majority rule at the country level. We compare the case in which policy makers set their policies...
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Almost half of the world’s states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014110963
The European debt crisis triggered a debate on the lacking components of the EU and EMU integration architecture. Many believe that a common currency requires closer fiscal and political integration as a condition for its survival. This opinion is not necessarily supported by the experience of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430920
The European debt crisis triggered a debate on the lacking components of the EU and EMU integration architecture. Many believe that a common currency requires closer fiscal and political integration as a condition for its survival. This opinion is not necessarily supported by the experience of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187949
In this paper, we try to explain the intergovernmental negotiation of the Lisbon treaty from a rational choice perspective with the aid of power index analysis. There are two aspects of the reform of qualified majority voting (QMV) in the Council that we find puzzling. The first one is that,...
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