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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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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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The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance and to modeling and predicting the behavior ...
José Santana Pereira, Tibúrcio Tiago
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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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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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Robust Deliberative Democracy [PDF]
, 2016 Deliberative democracy aspires to secure political liberty by making citizens the authors of their laws. But how can it do this in the face of deep disagreement, not to mention imperfect knowledge and limited altruism?
Layman, Daniel
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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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