Democracy appears to be strongly linked to liberty, to the ability to resist oppression and bureaucracy, to mass consumption and communications.TouraineResearchAlainResearchInternational Social Science JournalTOURAINE, A. 1991 `What does democracy mean today?' International Social Science Journal, no. 28...
Finally, the limits of this neo-institutionalist approach will be explored, before concluding with an assessment of the validity of the traditional functions of direct democracy today.doi:10.1080/01402380108425432PapadopoulosYannisTaylor & Francis GroupWest European Politics...
Does direct democracy hurt immigrant minorities? Evidence from naturalization decisions in Switzerland. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2022064 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2022064.Hainmueller, Jens and Dominik Hangartner (2013). "Does Direct Democracy Hurt Immigrant Minorities?
If we read the entire US Constitution and count the number of times the word ''democracy'' is used, then add in all the times that word is used in the...Become a member and unlock all Study Answers Start today. Try it now Create an account Ask a question Our experts can an...
This paper takes the influential "direct democracy makes people happy"-research as a starting point and asks whether direct democracy impacts individual satisfaction. Unlike former studies we distinguish two aspects of individual satisfaction, namely satisfaction with life ("happiness") and with how demo...
By leveraging these internal instruments, System GMM effectively controls for the reverse causality that may exist between the dependent and independent variables (Blundell and Bond, 1998). Table 5 illustrates the results of this alternative regression technique and indicates that our findings do not ...
This is, in many ways, an ongoing process. Pistor explains, “Property rights don’t just exist in a certain form. They are being created—they’re socially contested, economically contested, and politically contested. There are plenty of other historical influences on our understanding of private...
35 And this brings to an understanding that, for entrepreneurship to thrive two conditions must exist. First, freedom to be creative and innovative must be present for anyone to establish an economic venture. Second, there must be a favorable economic environment that offers entrepreneurs to grow ...
Mozambique is a multi-party democracy and the ruling party, Frelimo, has won all five national elections since Independence, sometimes with only narrow margins. In keeping with other Southern African political movements, Frelimo was originally constituted as a Marxist-Leninist formation. Today, market...
you know, everyone coming to London or Manchester in the 1840s, the cradles of modern capitalism. So you get these sparks, these cities which exist for a little while. The big thing for me about Vienna, only 30, 40 years before all this happened, it was a relatively small, provincial ...