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Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive

Foremny, Dirk; Freier, Ronny; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2015

We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...

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Direct Democracy: Chances and Challenges

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2015

This paper discusses several problems of direct popular decisions. In the first part, we consider problems related to the functioning of direct democracy. As a political system it only makes sense if there exists a continuous process and not if only occasional single questions are brought to a...

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Direct Democracy: Chances and Challenges

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2015

This paper discusses several problems of direct popular decisions. In the first part, we consid- er problems related to the functioning of direct democracy. As a political system it only makes sense if there exists a continuous process and not if only occasional single questions are brought to a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168458

Can constitutionalism build the rule of law?

Islami, Iliriana - In: SEER : journal for labour and social affairs in Eastern … 19 (2016) 2, pp. 141-152

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Islamic Constitutionalism and Rule of Law : A Constitutional Economics Perspective

Gouda, Moamen - 2016

Azhar, one of the most respected Sunni religious institutions in the world, developed a model of an Islamic constitution …. This study uses Al-Azhar's constitution as a model of Islamic constitutionalism, whereby its stance regarding rule of law … is examined. We find that Al-Azhar's constitution does not correspond with essential concepts of rule of law. For example …

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Civic participation : element of European democracy

Bercu, Ana-Maria - In: CES working papers 1 (2009) 1, pp. 5-9

Democracy is explained by giving the power to the government, with the consent of citizens, expressing their will, directly or indirectly through voting. Promoting and respecting individual and collective rights and freedoms is the foundation of democracy. Citizen participation is remarkable on...

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Human rights violations after 9/11 and the role of constitutional constraints

Goderis, Benedikt; Versteeg, Mila - 2009

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On the Effectiveness of Debt Brakes: The Swiss Experience

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgassner, Gebhard - 2006

The Swiss fiscal system is characterised by an extensive fiscal federalism with high fiscal autonomy at all governmental levels, by direct popular rights which include fiscal referenda at the cantonal and local levels, and by particular constitutional and/or statutory fiscal restraints in order...

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On the Effectiveness of Debt Brakes: The Swiss Experience

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgassner, Gebhard - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006

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Government weakness and electoral cycles in local public debt: evidence from Flemish municipalities

Geys, Benny - 2006

Empirical research on Political Business (and Budget) Cycles is more supportive for electoral cycles in policies than in macro-economic outcomes. But even pre-electoral policy cycles receive no unanimous confirmation. In the present paper, we give credence to recent arguments that this may be...

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