Democracy and autocracy
Democracy and taxation
... with democracy, and generally with a country’s political ...whether democracy is a consequence of economic growth, a prerequisite for it, or if both are ...between democracy, economic growth and ...
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Strengthening Democracy in Europe and its Resilience against Autocracy: Daring more Democracy and a European Democracy Charter Research Paper in Law 01/2019
... “International Democracy Documents – A Compilation of Treaties and Other Instruments”, Leiden and Boston 2015 and wrote his ...“The Democracy Obligation According to International Law – A Study of the ...
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Dictators Don’t Compete: Autocracy, Democracy, and Tax Competition. CES Open Forum Series #22 2018-2019
... mocracy because respect for the law, an independent judiciary, and an effective court system are essen- tial not only for property rights protection but also for safeguarding the constitutive openness and in- clusiveness ...
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Turkey and the Codification of Autocracy CEPS Policy Insights No 2017/10 March 2017
... of democracy, human rights and the rule of law was not an aim proclaimed in the constituent treaties of the European Communities (EC), or a prerequisite for joining ...
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Revisiting the oil curse: are oil rich nations really doomed to autocracy and inequality?
... According to Ross, the oil-impedes-democracy argument is “both valid and statistically robust” and tends to be stronger the poorer a country is, even when exports are small. 34 A quick observation substantiates ...
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Utado?! Bad Manners, Incivility, Impunity and the Legacy of Autocracy in Kenya
... They are tactics that are aimed at achieving the ultimate goal of taking Kenya back to the days of the pre-2010 Constitution when an imperial presidency reigned supreme and dissent was punishable, sometimes by death. The ...
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The Political Economy of Post-Communist Autocracy: The Continuum Between Dictatorship and Democracy
... In most of the slow-moving transitional countries, political power lies much more in the hands of a single executive than in the hands of, in most cases, a newborn and still weak council. In all societies where the ...
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From evaluating democracy assistance to appraising democracy promotion
... towards democracy promotion are crucially important to help mini- mise the potentially high costs of avoidable policy ...the democracy promoter’s reputation, but the dashed hopes and disappointments in ...
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Taxation and democracy
... considers democracy inevitable associated with a high level of taxation, because the democracy must satisfy pressure for immediate consumption, which are stronger then in ...the autocracy has no any ...
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Authoritarian School: A Nurturing Place for Autocracy
... The health of a society is determined by its value system. Some values (truth, justice, equality, humanism, to- lerance, peace, etc.) are necessary for its survival and other (excellence, commitment, studiousness, ...
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Terrorism via Democracy? Assessing Democracy Promotion as a Security Rationale
... while democracy and economic openness are not adequate indicators of transna- tional terrorism, there is a statistically significant correlation when looking at failed states and their contributions to ter- rorist ...
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Democracy of the Future. Comment on “Proposals for a Democracy of the Future” by Bruno Frey
... Under the current parliamentary situation, the governing ‘Law and Justice’ party can in practice enact any law without considering the view from the opposition, as it holds more than 50% (235 out of 460) of the seats in ...
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Democracy: an Incomplete Invention. Reflections on Giovanni Sartori´s what is Democracy?
... of democracy the Middle Ages have little to bring forward, we only have to say that it was a period of darkness, with some flashes of intellectual rebellion in several ...and democracy, and at the same time ...
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Democracy and Anekānta
... Freedom of expression is an important achievement of democracy. There is no doubt that everyone wishes to express him or herself. But when this expression ignores relativism and tends to be absolustic; then even ...
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War and Democracy
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The Sociality of Democracy
... of democracy in a society [Bewaji, 2012: ...of democracy encapsulates “a system whereby the whole of society can participate, at every level, in the decision-making process and keep control of it” ...
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Security, city and democracy
... public decisions are made by agents elected by the peo- ple and delegated by them to govern, it is however just as true that the different empirical theories of democracy cannot ignore the existence of a certain ...
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Mindfulness, Democracy, and Education
... We believe mindfulness is a criterion for empowerment and the praxis of human solidarity for the betterment of our democracy. For example, mindfulness practices such as meditation and yoga have had a peaceful ...
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Science, Expertise, and Democracy
... The idea of a robust deliberative democracy may in principle be compatible, under certain conditions, with some degree of deference to scientific or otherwise technical expertise. But there remain difficulties ...
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Duality and 'particle' democracy
... nuclear democracy, according to which no hadron is more fundamental than the others; and the bootstrap idea, that is the idea of a self-consistent hadronic structure in which the entire ensemble of hadrons ...
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