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Whereas a clinical approach to organizations has a well-deserved predicament, narrowing down such viewpoint to governance issues in organizations shows that there has been, so far, an almost complete neglect of this field of enquiry, on which this paper intends to make a contribution. Firstly,...
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The outcomes of the 2013 German Bundestag (federal parliament) are analyzed from the viewpoint of direct democracy. For this purpose, the party positions on 36 topical issues are compared with the results of public opinion polls, and the party and coalition indices of popularity (the average...
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The outcomes of the 2013 German Bundestag (federal parliament) election are analyzed from the viewpoint of direct democracy. For this purpose, the party positions on 36 topical issues are compared with the results of public opinion polls, and the party and coalition indices of popularity (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327521
societal coalitions. We show that new politically influential coalitions of freemen and then of small and large slave …-holding farmers emerged in the second half of the 17th and early 18th centuries, respectively. These coalitions were instrumental in … reversing the earlier democratic institutions. Our main contribution stems from integrating the labour markets and bargaining/coalitions …
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. The main results show that partial coalitions and multiple agreements tend to prevail among subsets of players, and that …
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reduction. The usual pessimism on the size of stable coalitions among world regions is challenged for two alternative cases …
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The German two-vote election system implements two historical conceptions of political representation coined at the end of the 18th century during the American and French Revolutions. The descriptive conception - the parliament portrays the society in miniature - is implemented in the first vote...
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In this article, we empirically study the survival of the ruling party in parliamentary democracies using a hazard rate model. We define survival of a crisis as being successful in a critical vote in the parliament. We develop a general probabilistic model of political crises and test it...
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players following a joint course of action (a Pareto optimal solution) and three solutions where various coalitions (subsets … of the players) play against coalitions of the other players in a noncooperative way. It turns out that the fully …
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Under the "Third Vote" method, the voters cast no votes but are asked about their preferences on policy issues as declared in the party manifestos (like in voting advice applications, e.g. German Wahl-O-Mat). Then the policy profile of the electorate with the balance of public opinion on every...
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