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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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Polis: Escalar de la deliberación mediante el mapeo de espacios de opinión de alta dimensión
Recerca: Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 2021 Deliberative and participatory approaches to democracy seek to directly include citizens in decision-making and agenda-setting processes. These methods date back to the very foundations of democracy in Athens, where regular citizens shared the burden of
Christopher Small +4 more
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Sustainable Development, 2021 Countries enact environmental regulations to achieve sustainable development andecological sustainability. However, environmental regulations do not guarantee envi-ronmental sustainability unless implemented efficiently.
Zahoor Ahmed +4 more
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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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IJAIN (International Journal of Advances in Intelligent Informatics), 2023 The significance of efficient and accurate diagnosis amidst the unique challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the urgency for innovative approaches.
Kenan Morani +2 more
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A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy
Nature Human Behaviour, 2022 One of today’s most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic review of causal and correlational evidence ( N = 496 articles) on the link
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen +3 more
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