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Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 2012 Desde la década de los ochenta, el municipio se ha convertido en el principal promotor de la “democracia participativa” despertando gran interés en el ámbito académico.
Yanina Welp, Cecilia Schneider
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Ancient Athenian Direct Democracy: Any Liberal Democratic Potential?
Ekonomi, Politika & Finans Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 This study aims to assess the claims whether or not the direct democracy in ancient Athens can be properly regarded as a liberal democracy or had the potentials to evolve into a liberal democratic regime. For this purpose, firstly, a brief examination of
Yavuz Selim Alkan
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Baltic Journal of European studies, 2015 This article explores the political role of a referendum in Central European countries, in particular in Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. In this article, political effectiveness is understood as a possibility to influence the decision-making ...
Kużelewska Elżbieta
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Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2023 Uruguay stands out as an exceptional case for having a vibrant party system, stable democracy, and frequent use of direct democracy mechanisms (MDDs). Previous research has explained the use of MDDs as a means of opposing centre-right governments, but it
Florencia Antía, Daniela Vairo
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How Much Does Money Matter in a Direct Democracy? [PDF]
, 2005 The fine-structure splitting of quantum confined InxGa1-x Nexcitons is investigated using polarization-sensitive photoluminescence spectroscopy. The majority of the studied emission lines exhibits mutually orthogonal fine-structure components split by ...
de Figueiredo, John M.
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Direct democracy in the constitution: good or bad for democracy?
The Theory and Practice of Legislation, 2022 Concerns about democratic decline and deficit have recently led to repeated calls for institutional changes that could enhance civil participation and direct voter participation in public decision-making (forms of direct democracy). An evergreen among the instruments proposed is the referendum, and in particular the constitutionally embedded referendum.
But, J.J. +2 more
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Direct Democracy in Japan [PDF]
, 2014 In general, mechanisms of direct democracy in Japan are not well established. At the national level, the National Referendum Law for the Change of the Constitution only recently came into effect on 18 May 2010, three years after its enactment. Before then there were no procedures laid out for a referendum on a constitutional amendment.
Okamoto, Mitsuhiko +2 more
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Correlates and Determinants of Direct Democracy [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 This paper studies correlates and determinants of direct democracy institutions (DDIs), such as referendums and initiatives, based on the premise that constitutions themselves are endogenous. Our sample covers as many as 132 countries from 1950 to 2006.
Bernd Hayo +3 more
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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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