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VOTER RATIONALITY AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
Critical Review, 2008From a 1996 survey comparing the views of economists and ordinary voters, Bryan Caplan deduces several biases—anti-market, anti-foreign, pessimistic, and makework biases—to support his thesis that voters are rationally irrational, i.e., that, aware of the inconsequentiality of their votes, they rationally indulge their “preferences” for public policies
Kiewiet DR, Mattozzi A
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Governance-Driven Democratization
Critical Policy Studies, 2009While democratic reforms of electoral institutions continue, their capacities for deepening democracy are limited by the large, pluralized, complex, and territorial political units through which they work. Much of the institutional innovation in democracy has shifted elsewhere – into ‘governance’, the development and administration of public policy ...
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2009
Abstract The concept of democratic governance appears ubiquitous today but it first appeared in peacebuilding terminology only as far back as the 1990s. It represents the melding of one of the oldest concepts in politics-democracy-with the more recent concept of governance, which, although coined in the 16th century, entered ...
Rama Mani, Jana Krause
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Abstract The concept of democratic governance appears ubiquitous today but it first appeared in peacebuilding terminology only as far back as the 1990s. It represents the melding of one of the oldest concepts in politics-democracy-with the more recent concept of governance, which, although coined in the 16th century, entered ...
Rama Mani, Jana Krause
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The Web of governance and democratic accountability
36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2003. Proceedings of the, 2003Developments in e-government are resulting in fundamental reorganizations of the ways in which democratic governments operate as well as in the ways in which citizens relate to their own and other governments and to each other. Of special relevance here are the manners in which institutions and citizens are becoming interconnected into a complex 'Web ...
Terrell A. Northrup, Stuart J. Thorson
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2016
Governance networks are one of the most debated and researched forms of interactive governance among governance theorists, and one of the key issues for debate has been the impact of governance networks on the form and functioning of democracy. There are three main positions on the issue: the worried, the hopeful and the enthusiastic.
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Governance networks are one of the most debated and researched forms of interactive governance among governance theorists, and one of the key issues for debate has been the impact of governance networks on the form and functioning of democracy. There are three main positions on the issue: the worried, the hopeful and the enthusiastic.
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2017
Abstract Democratic principles are ‘woven throughout the normative fabric of the United Nations’ (UN); and are grounded in the UN Charter, despite the fact that the word ‘democracy’ cannot be found in the Charter. One of the purposes of the UN is the development of friendly relations among nations ‘based on respect for the principle of ...
Rosalyn Higgins +4 more
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Abstract Democratic principles are ‘woven throughout the normative fabric of the United Nations’ (UN); and are grounded in the UN Charter, despite the fact that the word ‘democracy’ cannot be found in the Charter. One of the purposes of the UN is the development of friendly relations among nations ‘based on respect for the principle of ...
Rosalyn Higgins +4 more
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Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2013
This paper argues that governance can engender undemocratic inequality, exclusion and populism. It does so by analysing the concept of governance, and unearthing three theoretical justifications for it: one libertarian, one radical and one republican. These justifications are in turn refuted by showing how they respectively undermine a process-view of ...
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This paper argues that governance can engender undemocratic inequality, exclusion and populism. It does so by analysing the concept of governance, and unearthing three theoretical justifications for it: one libertarian, one radical and one republican. These justifications are in turn refuted by showing how they respectively undermine a process-view of ...
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Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government
Economic Inquiry, 1997All types of government face two major fiscal decisions: the level of government services and the average tax rate. This paper develops models of autocratic, democratic, and optimal government. The effects of alternative government structures are estimated using a common set of parameters based on US. data.
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Innovations in Democratic Governance
2011This chapter explores how direct citizen participation can feature throughout the varied stages of the public policy cascade. It discusses a range of democratic innovations for public participation, focusing on three aspects of the policy process: public opinion formation, decision-making, and implementation.
Bevir Mark, Bowman Quinlan
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Governing “Democratic” Equality
Political Research Quarterly, 2011This article examines tensions in the egalitarianism of J. S. Mill and R. H. Tawney alongside national education systems to develop a critical theory of democratic equality. Mill and Tawney advanced strong conceptions of democratic equality but with meritocratic elements that foreshadowed liberal governmental practices that have reconciled substantial ...
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