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The Democracy We Left Behind in Greece and McCutcheon
Torres-Spelliscy, Ciara - 2014
protecting democracy from creeping oligarchy served up one campaign contribution at a time. As evidenced by Town of Greece v …. Galloway, the Supreme Court is not protecting democracy from creeping theocracy served up one public prayer at a time. In both …
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Majority and Representation : A Political Economy Analysis of It-Enabled Democracy
Poux, Philémon - 2021
extend the analysis to Liquid Democracy and find that, while it can be well suited to small scales communities, it faces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220177
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The Median Voter Data Set : Voter Preferences across 50 Democracies from 1945
De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2009
The median voter, or the ideological position of the electoral center, has fi gured widely across literatures. This paper introduces a median voter data set that allows for comparison across time and across countries. The data set employs the statistics provided by the Comparative Manifesto...
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Tullock challenges : happiness, revolutions and democracy ; First tullock lecture: European Public Choice Conference, Rennes, 28 April - 1 May 2011
Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical "Tullock Challenges". The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739166
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Tullock challenges : happiness, revolutions and democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical "Tullock Challenges". The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127573
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Satisfaction Not Guaranteed - Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy in Western Europe
Wagner, Alexander F.; Dufour, Mathias; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
What determines citizens' satisfaction with the "constitution in operation"? We make two contributions towards an answer to this important policy question. First, we place stronger emphasis than existing studies on quantitative interpretations of the importance of different factors. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319995
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Democracy and COVID-19 outcomes
Karabulut, Gokhan; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2021
this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying the association with five different democracy measures, this study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422581
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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy : lessons from youth enfranchisement
Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020
Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous … democracy proxied by the strength of direct democratic institutions and (ii) the size of the new electorate. Our results provide … democracy and affects citizens' willingness to lower the voting age. Moreover, we find systematic price reactions of present …
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A banana republic? : trust in electoral institutions in Western democracies : evidence from a presidential election in Austria
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2016
We examine the extent to which political scandals influence trust in electoral institutions in established Western democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in individual electoral districts (scandal districts)....
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Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? : mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017
This paper starts with the observation that almost all military dictatorships that democratize become presidential democracies. I hypothesize that military interests are able to coordinate on status-preserving institutional change prior to democratization and therefore prefer political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763058