The rise of the extreme poles in the European political Spectrum, corresponds currently with a clear call for help by the site of simple People, combined with the desire for a serious confrontation with the tragic impasse reproduced by the extreme Problems of the everyday live . In this case,...

This paper compares two experimental models for participatory budgeting: the model pioneered by the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil; and the "votermedia" blog competitions implemented at the University of British Columbia and at several municipalities in Metro Vancouver, Canada. The mainstream...

With the passage of Act 48 in May 2011, Vermont has become the first U.S. state to enact a law for a universal, publicly financed health care system. The state is on course for implementing a single payer system by 2017. This first breakthrough in the decades-long struggle for universal health...

Information law rests upon two premises. The first is that information is a legally cognizable concept - that it can be framed in legal terms and has legal significance. The second is that there exists a rationale for government regulation and provision of information, either explicitly (through...

Why has environmental enforcement waned as environmental harms continue to grow bigger? This article, part of a symposium on enforcement of laws in the environmental and financial sectors, posits that a change in perceived immediacy of environmental harm, coupled with a change in communitarian...

Intellectual property scholars have vigorously debated the merits of patents versus prizes for encouraging innovation, with occasional consideration of government grants. But these are not the only options. Perhaps most significantly, the patents-versus-prizes (or...

We construct a dynamic model to study the interaction between households' investment decisions, their voting strategies, and government's choice of fiscal policy. Our purposes are threefold. First, we provide a theory of the beneficial effects of political "gridlock". Second, we characterize an...

The Maoists claim that they are fighting for the cause of the rural poor languishing under extreme poverty and impoverish conditions – a claim also acknowledged by the expert committee of Indian Planning Commission (2008). On the other hand, the government of India dubs the Maoists revolution...

In contrast to previous research, Dunning and Nilekani (2013 APSR) find that household level data do not support the view that the distribution of targeted public benefits to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes has increased as a result of quotas in Indian village councils. Using a natural...

Spanish Abstract: La evidencia empírica sobre la relación entre migración, finanzas públicas y decisiones de gasto, argumenta que los efectos están mediados por sentimientos de (anti)solidaridad de los nativos y por la (in)capacidad de los migrantes de afectar las decisiones de política....