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Designing with ‘direct democracy’
Bulletin KNOB, 2021 In the 1970s and ’80s residents and architects in Amsterdam worked together to shape the renewal of their neighbourhood. Working outside traditional planning constraints they initiated a process for designing ‘neighbourhood plans’ that gave priority to ...
Aimée Albers
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Reimagining direct democracy as an intersection of different forms of representation [PDF]
Pravni Zapisi, 2020 As an exceptional device in the life of contemporary constitutional democracies, direct democracy is normally considered to be separate from representation.
Miloš Matija
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, 2021 AbstractChapter 4 discusses the emergence, types and functioning of Swiss direct democracy and assesses its effects on power-sharing and the political system more broadly. Contrary to what many theorists have claimed, direct democracy is not too demanding for people in a highly developed industrial society.
Wolf Linder, Sean Mueller
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Research & Politics, 2017 Many argue that direct democracy improves the quality of democracy. In particular, many scholars claim that it increases the representation of the public’s preferences by fostering communicative responsiveness between politicians and citizens.
Anouk Lloren
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Politeja, 2023 SWITZERLAND IN EUROPE: CULTURAL IDENTITY AND MODELS OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY FROM A PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE The article examines the origins and transformation of direct democracy in Switzerland and discusses this problem against the wider background of ...
Marcin Rebes
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Features of direct democracy in Switzerland
Правоприменение, 2020 The subject. The article is about the peculiarities of referendum and popular initiative which are the main forms and institutions of direct democracy in Switzerland.The purpose of the article is to determine the peculiarities of direct democracy in ...
Svetlana A. Solomonova
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Conceptualizing and Measuring the Quality of Democracy: The Citizens’ Perspective
Politics and Governance, 2018 In recent years, several measurements of the quality of democracy have been developed (e.g. Democracy Barometer, Varieties of Democracy Project). These objective measurements focus on institutional and procedural characteristics of democracy.
Dieter Fuchs, Edeltraud Roller
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On the optimality of direct democracy
Theory and DecisionAbstract We study the optimality of direct democracy under incomplete information, in a setting where society must choose between two policies under one of two possible scenarios. Voters are of four types: leftist, rightist, selfish, and altruistic.
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Democratization of Administration: An Opportunity to Restore Direct Democracy [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒UmūmīIntroductionIn the field of public law, democracy creates a clear boundary between the political and administrative layers of the government. The model of democracy is applied in the political layer, while the administrative layer operates based on ...
Samaneh Rahmatifar
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Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна Серія: «Право», 2022 Introduction. The article deals with the study of the essence and features of participatory democracy as one of the political and legal foundations of municipal power.
Oleksiy Ganzhuk
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