Results 221 to 230 of about 46,885 (268)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
Psychological Reports, 2000
Indices of democratic rights and local autonomy in the 26 Swiss cantons in 1990 were not associated with the suicide rates of the cantons.
openaire +2 more sources
Indices of democratic rights and local autonomy in the 26 Swiss cantons in 1990 were not associated with the suicide rates of the cantons.
openaire +2 more sources
Democracy, Democracy Support and Democracy Socialization
PCS – Politics Culture and SocializationWhat is the current democratic situation in the world? How can we explain the presence or absence of democracy in countries? How much popular support is there for democracy? How can we explain variance in this support for democracy? These are the key questions to answer in this article.
openaire +1 more source
2015
This contribution builds on the work of the group of comparativists, Gerhard Lehmbruch among them, who took up the challenge to study the various forms in which the normative principles of democracy have been implemented in the real world. More specifically, it builds on the basic distinction between majoritarian and proportional systems that has been ...
openaire +1 more source
This contribution builds on the work of the group of comparativists, Gerhard Lehmbruch among them, who took up the challenge to study the various forms in which the normative principles of democracy have been implemented in the real world. More specifically, it builds on the basic distinction between majoritarian and proportional systems that has been ...
openaire +1 more source
International Political Science Review, 2000
Was democracy invented by the Greeks to replace the anarchy and imperial rule characteristic of earlier Near Eastern societies? Although what was explicitly borrowed from antiquity by modern political thinkers looks Athenian, there was democracy before the polis .
openaire +2 more sources
Was democracy invented by the Greeks to replace the anarchy and imperial rule characteristic of earlier Near Eastern societies? Although what was explicitly borrowed from antiquity by modern political thinkers looks Athenian, there was democracy before the polis .
openaire +2 more sources
Political power and democracy in Denmark: decline of democracy or change in democracy?
Journal of European Public Policy, 2006Udgivelsesdato ...
openaire +2 more sources
Democracy and social democracy
2018The hands-on challenges involved in building up genuinely democratic mechanisms of self-government in Britain take a high profile in Tony Wright’s chapter focused on the democracy aspects within social democracy. Like it or not, Wright notes, the Brexit referendum was a remarkably successful democratic uprising, regardless of whether leaving the ...
openaire +1 more source
Communications of the ACM, 2018
Increased technology is not the solution to the fundamental issue of declining democratic culture.
openaire +2 more sources
Increased technology is not the solution to the fundamental issue of declining democratic culture.
openaire +2 more sources
What is Democracy? A Reconceptualization of the Quality of Democracy
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014Works on the quality of democracy propose standards for evaluating politics beyond those encompassed by a minimal definition of democracy. Yet, what is the quality of democracy? This article first reconstructs and assesses current conceptualizations of the quality of democracy.
openaire +1 more source
Between Party Democracy and Parity Democracy
Abstract This chapter investigates potential tensions between intra-party democracy, principles of gender equality, and, more broadly, democratic outcomes. It builds on empirical findings from studies on the implementation of gender quotas by political parties across Europe.Meier, Petra +2 more
openaire +2 more sources
Local Democracy Shaping e-Democracy
2003This paper offers a fresh perspective to study the role and implications of information and communications technologies (ICT) in processes of local democracy. It moves away from earlier perspectives that have given privilege to information flows, information technology features or strategies employed by human actors in their accounts.
openaire +2 more sources