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The next revolution: Popular assemblies and the promise of direct democracy [PDF]

, 2016
Benjamin Ask Popp‐Madsen
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The Impact of Direct Democracy and Local Autonomy on Tax Morale in Switzerland [PDF]

This paper analyses the impact of direct democracy and local autonomy on tax morale and the size of the shadow economy. We use two different data sets on tax morale at the individual level (World Values Survey and International Social Survey Programme ...
Benno Torgler
core  

Fiduciary Voters? [PDF]

, 2014
What does the majority owe the minority when issues are put to a vote? This question is central to direct democracy, where voters bypass the legislature and enact law directly. Some scholars have argued that voters in direct democracy bear fiduciary-like
Anundsson, Maria, Wändin, Ellenor
core   +1 more source

Dispensing Volumetric Additive Manufacturing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Dispensing volumetric additive manufacturing (DVAM) prints 3D structures inside a photocurable resin droplet suspended from the tip of a glass pipette, enabling sequential printing without resin vats or manual part removal. Real‐time droplet profiling and ray‐tracing‐based correction compensate for optical distortion at the curved resin‐air interface ...
Hongryung Jeon, Yunsoo Lee, Seobin Park, Kyung‐Hwan Kim, Junyoung Seo, Im Doo Jung   +5 more
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Trust the People? Populism, Trust, and Support for Direct Democracy

Politics and Governance
Populism is commonly understood as a response to frustrations with the functioning of modern democracy, while the use of direct democratic mechanisms has been hailed as a remedy for the ailing of representative democracies. Indeed, populism’s emphasis on
Nina Wiesehomeier, Saskia P. Ruth-Lovell
doaj   +1 more source

When tobacco targets direct democracy. [PDF]

J Health Polit Policy Law, 2014
Laposata E, Kennedy AP, Glantz SA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Direct Democracy: Designing a Living Constitution

, 2003
Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer
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Iterative Delegations in Liquid Democracy with Restricted Preferences

, 2019
In this paper, we study liquid democracy, a collective decision making paradigm which lies between direct and representative democracy. One main feature of liquid democracy is that voters can delegate their votes in a transitive manner so that: A ...
Escoffier, Bruno, Gilbert, Hugo, Pass-Lanneau, Adèle   +2 more
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Strategies for Loading and Releasing Peptide Therapeutics in Biodegradable Carriers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A biodegradable carrier‐based peptide delivery system is a powerful treatment platform for diverse diseases, owing to its superior therapeutic efficacy and low toxicity. This review examines the conventional peptide‐loaded carrier fabrication process and its current limitations.
Wookyoung Jang, Ki Wan Bong
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Direct Democracy [PDF]

This paper investigates on the demographic, economic, political and cultural determinants of direct democracy in 87 countries using an index of direct democracy.
Nadia Fiorino, Roberto Ricciuti
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