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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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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 We revisit one of the central empirical findings of the political economy literature that higher income per capita causes democracy. Existing studies establish a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy, but do not typically control ...
Daron Acemoglu +3 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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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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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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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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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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, 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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Social Science Quarterly, 2016 ObjectivesThis article relies on data from two samples of 47 and 49 European countries from 1950 through 2011 and 1,980 and 1,960 football domestic leagues, respectively, to explore to what extent political regimes affect the competitive balance in domestic football (soccer) leagues.MethodsWe run OLS cross‐sectional regressions comparing democracies ...
Ignacio Lago +2 more
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