A Theory of Democracy refers to influential perspectives such as representative democracy, participatory democracy, and deliberative democracy, which offer distinct views on how political issues, including those related to technological change, are addressed within a society. ...
real estate sector, we show that administrative reallocations of village land by local authorities increase with the level of real estate activity and that this effect is mitigated by the development of village-level democracy. These results are consistent with those of the handful of existing ...
CHAPTER 4 Direct Democracy 4.1 Introduction: The Vote to Abolish the Swiss Army On 27 November 1989, the New York Times reported the following news from Switzerland: Swiss Reject Plan to Scrap Army Geneva. Switzerland today voted to keep its army as the best way of maintaining ...
Sartori (1987, 120), the Italian theorist, went so far as to say that direct democracy ‘would quickly and disastrously founder on the reefs of cognitive incompetence’ (see also Budge 1996, 69). Adherents of the model of participatory or radical democracy, on the other hand, argue that ...
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direct economic democracy everybody mattersForecast verification as a way to hold macro-economics to account. May 5, 2014 // 2 I’ve been struck by how weather forecasters face some of the same types of difficulties that beset macroeconomics. Both have to rely on “natural experiments” (ie...
The industry of paid signature gathering, nearly as old as direct democracy itself, now guarantees that whoever has the requisite amount of money (now more than a million dollars in California) can qualify virtually any initiative for the ballot. As the above discussion of screening and selection...
For example, Democracy OS " simply does away with secret ballots." For this project, that stance is unacceptable. It indicates that the designers did not iterate enough through the challenges to come up with a truly revolutionary concept, instead settling for a partial solution. Partial solutions...
monarchy lost unquestionable legitimacy. Step by step monarchies were transformed into democratic republics or quasi-republics. But in most countries during the nineteenth century democracy was still far away. Not only informally as usual, but even legally, in their right to vote, all subjects were...
This is in the traditions of pragmatistic understanding of democracy as process rather than static voting (again, refer to the Arrow Paradox above); the issues are not primarily in some abstract static “majority rule” but about the substantial “process by which majorities […] are formed” ...