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Broad consensus exists that the ability of political actors to make credible commitments is key to development. An important and little-explored determinant of the credibility of political commitments is the existence of organizations that facilitate citizen collective action to sanction...
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perspective on his political theory. Moreover, we obtain quantitative results on political deliberation under Rawlsian rules …
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This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in...
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electoral participation. Thus, our results question the empirical relevance of the swing voter's curse theory in large elections …This paper provides an empirical investigation of electoral participation and communicative voting in 14 European … countries. We estimate a multi-level voting process where individuals face a participation decision (whether to vote or abstain …
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Can process conditionality really enhance poverty reduction in developing countries? This question is addressed in the framework of a politico-economic model considering political distortions both on the recipient and on the donor side. It turns out that process conditionality is a very useful...
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citizen participation: All citizens of the member countries of international organizations have the potential right to … transaction costs, a representative group of citizens is randomly selected who can actually exercise their participation rights …
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This note shows that participation by many players in deterministic contests arises when different players have …
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participation on the part of immigrants is perceived as being substantially lower than for native born citizens and questions have …. We use two unique sets of data to conduct our research. The 2006 Electoral Participation Survey contains information on … individual electoral participation in national, county and municipal elections. We match this information to registry data from …
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Participation in Fiscal Policy held at UN headquarters in New York City. The full report of the EGM, Citizen Participation and Pro …
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war likely influence citizens' post-conflict political participation, with consequences for democratic politics. We … choices about political participation. We test our argument with an original household survey of 12,000 households from war …-state paramilitaries increased participation in formal and informal political channels when compared to those not having experienced armed …
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