The Python project, in the context of debating a governance change, recently put togethera comprehensive survey of project governance and voting procedures, andvoted to move to an elected Steering Committee model. This article attempts to synthesize some of the best practices I have seen used in ...
Party Competition and Reforms of Unemployment Benefits in Germany: How a Small Change in Electoral Demand Can Make a Big Difference. German Politics, 18, 155-179.Picot, Georg. 2009. "Party Competition and Reforms of Unemployment Benefits in Germany: How a Small Change in Electoral Demand Can ...
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Educational change requires more time than politics often allows. Rapid electoral cycles and short tenures for ministers of education can lead to a whipsaw of priorities, which can in turn confuse and disillusion educators and families. This is exacerbated when reform efforts ...
Mr. Trump alluded to this aspect of the Electoral College in his talk with the New York Times. “What it does do is it gets you out to see states that you’ll never see otherwise. It’s very interesting. Like Maine. I went to Maine four times. I went to Maine...because everybod...
How can one promote behavioral change needed for this? We argue that one important factor is the perception of collective decisions as legitimate. Therefore, this paper investigates how legitimacy can be enhanced through democratic mechanisms, particularly the voting method applied (Helbing et al., ...
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657). Institutional entrepreneurs use political and social skills to intervene strategically, as well as mobilise and combine resources to set agendas and drive institutional change; they “…engage critically and strategically with institutions rather than simply playing pre-assigned roles” (Lowndes & ...
“Even if Russian interference made only a marginal difference,” Clinton told an audience at a recent speech at Stanford University, “this election was won at the margins, in the Electoral College.” It’s clear Clinton’s campaign was profoundly destabilized by the sudden exposures that regul...
Government should be funding elections. Government should be providing adequate resources, and it’s still failing to do that. But this is specifically with regard to the pandemic, and so from my perspective, I always knew this is a one-time effort. I will also say that it’s unfortunate ...