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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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Politeja, 2020 Referendum as an Indicator of the Model of Local Democracy (with Particular Emphasis on the Local Referendum in the United States of America) A model approach to local democracy is proposed through this paper.
Agnieszka Pawłowska
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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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Revealing the structure of land plant photosystem II: the journey from negative‐stain EM to cryo‐EM
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Advances in cryo‐EM have revealed the detailed structure of Photosystem II, a key protein complex driving photosynthesis. This review traces the journey from early low‐resolution images to high‐resolution models, highlighting how these discoveries deepen our understanding of light harvesting and energy conversion in plants.
Roman Kouřil
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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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Weber’s Concern on Immediate Democracy and the Mediation of Parliament
Redescriptions, 2020 Weber’s judgement on the types of immediate democracy is ambivalent; he recognizes the reduction of institutional mediation and power as well as the possibility of a more direct intervention by the people on the one hand, but he also underlines the major
Cristiana Senigaglia
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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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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.In this study, we present the structure of AcrIE8.1, a previously uncharacterized anti‐CRISPR protein that inhibits the type I‐E CRISPR‐Cas system. Through a combination of structural and biochemical analyses, we demonstrate that AcrIE8.1 directly binds to the Cas11 subunit of the Cascade complex to inhibit the CRISPR‐Cas system.
Young Woo Kang, Hyun Ho Park
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