Why is power sharing desirable in modern democracies? How does political ideology influence government policy making? How do government and politics help resolve conflict in society? Compare one democracy with one non democracy countries/governments. What are the differences between them in terms of th...
Gideon Lichfield:Well, it’s not quite that bad. But thereisan air leak in the space station. It was discovered about a year ago, but in the last few weeks, it’s gotten bigger. And while NASA says it’s still too small to endanger the crew… well… they also still can’t quite...
The writing is on the wall. Things are serious: the ‘great democratic revolution’ of modern times, as Tocqueville once called it, appears to be spluttering to a halt. Some observers, recalling the disasters of the 1920s and 1930s, when most new democracies perished, are suggesting that so...
double: The success of democracies is not that the people in power were too incompetent to take over. It is a combination of those people not wanting to take over, institutions stopping them if they tried, and voters being smart enough to detect the most dangerous and not let them in. co...
(Schumacher2012; Ceron2019). Even if the leadership of the party is considered powerful and leads the way in policy- and decision-making, the party activists are involved in the process and have a particular, yet limited, level of veto power as well (Jun and Jakobs2021; Rohrschneider and...
These different uses or new purposes for something that was originally designed and produced with a different intent in mind also raises questions about POSIWIDs broader impact on organisational coherence. If there is no shared understanding or agreement of the boundaries and purposes of our ...
For most of history that the theory about how you resolve them is that they’re too complicated for all of us to weigh in on. So let’s just get one guy to just decide for us. And it’s hard to remember if you’re born in the modern era that that was the, the dominant theory...
(cf. Geise et al.,2021). Overall, social media offers high choice in information resources; it is independent of time and location, and it can enhance policy officials’ capacity to find work-relevant information, including through passive consumption. Faster to be shared across messenger service...
Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs:“Europe’s Promise is a timely and provocative book . . . the “social capitalist” policies of European countries represent best practices in handling most of the challenges modern democracies face today.”...
The classification of problems into hierarchies, the establishment of shared assumptions built with a common vocabulary, and reasoning by analogy are all critical to determining appropriate tools of government power, the allocation of resources, and the tolerance for risk....