Markets, Knowledge and Institutions: What Do Democracies and Scientific Communities Have in Common?Rius, Andres
more than 2,234 adjectives have been used to describe democracy. While many scholars refer to direct and representative as the most common of these, several other types of democracies can be found around the world
How do democracies ensure fairness in decision-making? By incorporating diverse viewpoints, protecting minority opinions, and adhering to established laws and ethical standards. 6 Can a democracy turn into a mobocracy? Yes, when democratic institutions fail to manage public dissent or when the majorit...
For example, most modern countries are nominally democracies that, in practice, require the support of wealthy donors to effectively campaign for office or influence policy. Expenditures by wealthy individuals and corporations on activities such as political campaigns, legallobbying, "socially conscious" ...
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. —James Bovard Democracies die behind closed doors. —Damon Keith Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in. —John F. Kennedy ...
In order to make sure that people's voices are being heard accurately, democracies have to ensure that all voting processes are "free and fair." But what does that mean? In order for an election to be "free and fair," it has to be administered in a way that allows its citizens to ...
Regime uncertainty:Economic historian Robert Higgs noted that mixed economies tend to have continuously changing regulations, or rules of trade.6This is especially true in Western democracies,such as the United States, with opposing political parties. ...
The cause of problems in the U.S. is the same cause of the Putin terror war. The reason why democracies are failing is because we have missed the science that holds that answer to prevent the actual collapse of civilization itself. 50 years of research goes into every publication A new ...
Kim and Kim (2008) propose a two-level categorisation of deliberation in deliberative democracies: “instrumental deliberation” defined as a procedural tool to negotiate and make decisions, and “dialogic deliberation” or “dialogue” defined as political talk in which a sense of self, other, com...
“out-dated frameworks still inform policy prescriptions”. In fact, searching for alternative solutions may partly explain why there’s been a resurgence of nationalist and even fascist sentiment across democracies in recent times – but those systems have been tried before, and surely do not hold...