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The business of democracy is democracy [PDF]
International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2005 The Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision in 2000 reminded America of the sometimes paradoxical relationship between the democratic process and legal institutions. Judge Posner’s book makes a valuable contribution to an expanded understanding of the tense yet mutually reinforcing interaction of law and democracy.
McCormick, John P., Jacobson, Arthur J.
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Emigration and Democracy [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. The authors find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom.
Hillel Rapoport +5 more
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Democracy and Globalization [PDF]
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 1991 One of the most conspicuous features of politics at the turn of the millennium is the emergence of issues which transcend national frontiers. Processes of economic internationalization, the problem of the environment and the emergence of regional and global networks of communication are increasingly matters of concern for the international community as
David Held, David Held
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 There is a wide-ranging debate about the merits and demerits of searching for, and sending messages to, extraterrestrial intelligences (SETI and METI). There is however reasonable (but not universal) consensus that replying to a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence should not be done unilaterally, without consultation with wider society and ...
Hatfield, Peter, Trueblood, Leah
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Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2022 Abstract Background The spread of knowledge on the important implications of a diagnosis of genetic disease does not correspond to a sharing of the knowledge and equal rights of children. Main body It is estimated that about 5% of newborns may have a rare disease that in ...
Marchetti, Federico, Corsello, Giovanni
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Journal of Financial Economics, 2020 Abstract Does democratization reduce the cost of credit? Using global syndicated loan data from 1984 to 2014, we find that democratization has a sizable negative effect on loan spreads: a 1-point increase in the zero-to-ten Polity IV index of democracy shaves at least 19 basis points off spreads, but likely more.
Iftekhar Hasan +6 more
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Physical Review D, 2019 We conjecture that there exists a scalar bound state for every pair of fundamental fermions at a UV (`composite') scale, $ \gg v_{\text{weak}}$. This implies a large number of universally coupled, sub-critical Higgs doublets. All but the Standard Model Higgs are `dormant,' with large positive squared masses and each receives a small vacuum expectation
Hill, Christopher T. +3 more
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Democracy Versus Democracy: The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy
LSE Public Policy Review, 2020 The current populist challenges in western liberal democracies should not be seen as evidence of their decline, but as a constituent part. The history of democracy shows us that such challenges enable democracy’s growth and evolution. As these modern conflicts and crises see populists seek to capitalise on the discontent of the people, it is evident ...
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American Economic Review, 2006 In spite of the inexorable march of democracy around the globe, just how democratic institutions a¤ect human well-being is open to debate. The evidence that democracy promotes prosperity is neither strong nor robust. Moreover which aspects of policy making and human well-being are promoted by democracies is still a subject of debate.1 Even if ...
Besley, Timothy, Kudamatsu, Masayuki
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, 2021 This chapter deals with democracy and Rousseau's participative polity. The demands of positive freedom are also those of the political body, constituted of citizens, to organize itself. The chapter explores this ever-important notion. No freedom can be complete without a fully democratized state — and this includes the subjection of the economy to ...
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