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The role of direct democracy in the European Union

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2004

In this paper, the introduction of direct-democratic decision-making in all EU decisions is considered when it is feasible without prohibitively increasing decision-making costs. We start with the contractarian argument that each constitution is a contract joining the citizens of a state and...

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Managing technical knowledge to enhance organisational best practice

Bishop, James - 2009

problems in implementing and sustainingKnowledge Management (KM) initiatives. A key reason for this, which has been cited …

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HIV-inclusive and -sensitive cash transfer initiatives: Evidence from high-prevalence countries in Eastern and Southern Africa

de Arruda, Pedro Lara - 2019

There is growing consensus that the tools and knowledge exist to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. To reach this goal, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has established the 90-90-90 strategy, which aims to ensure that by 2020, 90 per cent of...

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Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare in India

Bajpai, Nirupam; Wadhwa, Manisha - 2021

focused solely on AI. However, recently, Government of India has taken various initiatives related to AI such as establishment …'s state governments have also taken few initiatives, such as establishment of Centre of Excellence for Data Science and …

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Correlates and determinants of direct democracy

Blume, Lorenz; Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2015

initiatives, based on the premise that constitutions themselves are endogenous. Our sample covers as many as 132 countries from …

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Budget Referendums and Government Spending: Evidence from Swiss

Feld, Lars P.; Matsusaka, John G. - 2000

New government spending must be approved by a referendum of citizens in many Swiss cantons. This decisionmaking procedure seems like a simple way to address citizen-legislator agency problems, but little systematic evidence is available concerning its effect on spending outcomes. We estimate...

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The Role of Direct Democracy in the European Union

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2003

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The effect of direct democratic institutions on income redistribution: Evidence from Switzerland

Feld, Lars P.; Fischer, Justina A. V.; Kirchgässner, … - 2007

There is an intensive dispute in political economics about the impact of institutions on income redistribution. While the main focus is on comparison between different forms of representative democracy, the influence of direct democracy on redistribution has attracted much less attention. In...

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Sustainable Fiscal Policy in a Federal System: Switzerland as an Example

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgassner, Gebhard - 2004

How a sustainable fiscal policy can be performed in a federal system is not only a Swiss prob-lem but is also discussed in other federal countries like Germany and Austria, and in the European Union. Contrary to most other countries, the Swiss fiscal system is characterised by an extensive...

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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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