direct democracy
Gender gaps in policy making: evidence from direct democracy in Switzerland
... on direct democracy and gender), four areas cover public goods (environment, transportation, defence and culture), two cover the public provision of a private good (education, health), and three areas are ...
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Does direct democracy reduce the size of government? New evidence from historical data, 1890-2000
... stronger direct democratic institutions are very different in their observable ...stronger direct democracy also permit other forms of citizen control over the ...
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Development of Direct Democracy in Swiss Cantons between 1997 and 2003
... Table 1 provides information on how the index of direct democracy changed between 1996 (as found in Stutzer, 1999) and 2003 (based on own calculations). It must be noted that not all institutional changes ...
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Usability and Sociability of Direct Democracy Projects Based on Online Groups
... Abstract: Digital media, in particular social media, are often perceived to be changing political participation. In this discourse, the Internet is seen as a new public sphere with promises of increased democratization ...
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Direct democracy, partial decentralization and voter information: evidence from Swiss municipalities
... of direct democracy on decentral- ization and, to add to the current body of works on the subject, this paper focus on local level ...relevant direct democratic institutions in Switzer- land, namely ...
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The Economic Effects of Direct Democracy - A Cross-Country Assessment
... of direct democracy in a given country but also to explicitly take its experiences with direct democracy as well as its entire political culture into ...where direct democratic elements ...
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Does Direct Democracy Reduce the Size of Government? New Evidence from Historical Data, 1890-2000
... of direct democracy on public ...in direct democratic institu- tions which we coded by carefully examining each canton’s past and present ...of direct democratic institutions with instrumental ...
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The Effect of Direct Democracy on Income Redistribution: Evidence for Switzerland
... of direct democracy. This result indicates that in more direct democratic cantons people’s income is reduced to a lesser extent through local and cantonal taxes than in more representative political ...
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Gender gaps in policy making: Evidence from direct democracy in Switzerland
... the direct democratic setting in Switzerland where the electorate makes political decisions on a broad range of policy issues with real political and fiscal consequences two to three times a ...leading ...
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Direct democracy and government size : evidence from Spain
... to direct democracy might change ...representative democracy, an agency problem exists between voters and their elected representatives due to free-rider problems in monitoring and disciplining ...
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Explaining institutional change : why elected politicians implement direct democracy
... advantages: direct democracy could restrain their opponents who might regain office through the remaining corruption in the political system; and it would win back the electorate’s trust, allowing them to ...
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Direct Democracy and Organized Interests: Examining the Existence of a Participation Gap among Groups
... Groups in California and Michigan report very high amounts of activity relating to direct democracy. As Table 1 shows, a large majority of groups (85% in California and 75% in Michigan) have provided ...
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In Search of the Lost Constitution: The EU between Direct Democracy and the Permissive Consensus
... Following the negative results of the French and Dutch referendums on the Constitutional Treaty, the European Council has called for a "period of reflection" before reviewing the situation in 2006. This period ...
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Direct Democracy and Political Equality in the American States. Patrick Flavin
... The splitting of states into those with the initiative process and those without does not tell the whole story about the relationship between direct democracy and political inequality, for several reasons. ...
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Direct Democracy in the EU –The Myth of a Citizens’ Union CEPS Paperback, November 2018
... Denmark makes extensive use of direct democracy instruments to determine its political approach to Europe. This is due to a constitutional requirement to hold referendums under certain circumstances and the ...
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Direct Democracy and Representative Government
... with democracy at the aggregate level implies a difference in focus compared to prior ...of direct democracy alone should be sufficient to lead to improved representation (Besley and Coate, 2008; ...
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New Directions for Empirical Studies of Direct Democracy
... examining direct democracy through a lens that focuses on a checklist of what they were right and wrong ...of direct democracy remains ripe for theoretical and empirical ...of direct ...
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The Role of Direct Democracy in the European Union
... of direct democracy by Brennan and Lomasky (1993) and Brennan and Hamlin (2000) is flawed for several ...cedes direct democratic decisions, but also ...in direct democracy and ...
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Direct democracy In and between the EU and UK: a legal analysis of the European Citizens' Initiative and the European Union Act 2011
... Secondly, direct democracy is a complement to representative democracy and political representatives elected will be expected to continue to carry out a decision-making ...of direct ...
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Direct Democracy as a Legislative Act
... Guarantee Clause. See id. at 569. Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution provides that “[t]he United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government . . . .” U.S. C ONST . art. ...
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