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Political Accountability and Democratic Institutions: An Experimental Assessment

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
AbstractWe study the extent to which centralized democratic institutions enhance collective action under political accountability. In a public goods game with costly punishment, we vary the appointment of one group member to enforce punishment. Specifically, we compare democratically elected punishers to those appointed exogenously, under both single ...
José Gabriel Castillo, John Hamman
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Reflections on Democratic Experimentalism in the Progressive Tradition

Contemporary Pragmatism, 2012
By outlining the history of administrative law from the Progressive era to the present, this essay suggests a genealogical connection between Dewey's pragmatism and democratic experimentalism. Democratic experimentalism is rooted in the Progressive paradigm of an administrative state guided by expert judgment but responds to the ossification of the U.S.
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The Constituting Value of a European Democratic Experimentalism

Contemporary Pragmatism, 2018
John Dewey conceived democracy as a cooperative problem-solving practice in which actors try out provisional solutions by means of social communication. His notion of experimental democracy as a specific form of life and an ethical enterprise rather than simply a form of government implies the constitution of a polity as a practical and complex process
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'Democratic Experimentalism': A Separation of Powers for Our Time?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
The separation of powers became the ambivalent, largely rhetorical tradition it is today as a result of the plasticity of its core concepts, power, authority, and liberty. Throughout the Progressive and New Deal eras its basic meaning was complicated by an experimentalist reinvention of its traditional institutional faces. This experimentalism resulted
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American Experimental Poetry and Democratic Thought

2009
Alan Marshall takes Alexis de Tocqueville’s discussion of ‘Some Sources of Poetic Inspiration in Democracies’ in the second volume of his Democracy in America as the starting point for a wide-ranging examination of the nature of democratic thought and expression in American experimental poetry, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson in the mid ...
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On Democratic Experimentalism: Toward a Culture of Love and Non-Violence

Contemporary Pragmatism, 2012
This essay rethinks democratic experimentalism from an ethical point of view, and look at its potential for the friture by drawing on two key thinkers of the late 20th and early 21st century: Richard Rorty and Luce Irigaray. I explore the experimentalist character in Irigaray's later thought and point to a pragmatist link in her works, and then ...
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Framing Effects on Democratic Acceptability: An Experimental Approach

2018
This chapter investigates whether the way the public is provided with information on spatial planning policies influences democratic acceptability towards an incentive-based policy instrument. In a survey experiment involving Swiss participants, goal and attribute framing effects are tested by combining framing theory with a causal model for public ...
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Producing Publics: Dewey, Democratic Experimentalism, and the Idea of Communication

Contemporary Pragmatism, 2012
In a volume dedicated to celebrating and interrogating the pragmatic - and especially Deweyan - roots of democratic experimentalism, this essay explores some of the more elusive aspects of Dewey's ideas of communication. It argues that for Dewey, the question of communication was not how speakers should make their interior thoughts and desires ...
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A Democratic Legacy: Hallie Flanagan and the Vassar Experimental Theatre

2016
Hallie Flanagan is best known as national director of the Federal Theatre Project (1935–1939). However, Flanagan’s influence on American theatre extends far beyond these four years. Flanagan was the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, which she used to study contemporaneous European theatre.
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Horizontal experimentalism: Rethinking democratic resistance

Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2022
Rahel Süß
exaly