Crackpot or Genius? Canada Steps onto the World Stage as a Democratic Innovator
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2008 Concluding remarks by J.H. Snider, a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and President of iSolon.org, delivered to Harvard University Canada Program’s Conference on Comparing the Democratic Deficit in Canada and the United States: Defining ...
J. H. Snider
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Escaping the Under-Reform Trap [PDF]
Most former Soviet republics have fallen into an economic and political under-reform trap. An intrusive state imposes high tax rates and drives entrepreneurs into the unofficial economy, which further aggravates the pressure on official businessmen.
Anders ‰slund +2 more
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Select committee report shows way forward on voter registration [PDF]
, 2011 The Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee’s 10threport of session, Individual Electoral Registration and Electoral Administration, has generated widespread media coverage.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
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1910 Colombian constitutional reform and the electoral system (1910-1914)
Historia y Memoria, 2017 In 1910 in Colombia a constitutional reform took place. It was promulgated through Legislative Act 03 and its aim was to strengthen the development of democracy, as a strategy for mediating the bipartisan conflict that Colombian society had been living ...
Olga Yanet Acuña Rodríguez
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Colombia 2010: análisis de las elecciones presidenciales y legislativas
Colombia Internacional, 2011 The 2010 Colombian elections clearly moved the country toward a more multiparty system, characterized by the practice of post-electoral coalitions. These tendencies had been emerging since the collapse of the two-party system in the 1990s. The purpose of
Mónica Pachón, Gary Hoskin
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Romanian Post‑Revolution Electoral Myths
Sfera Politicii, 2015 The article analyzes some of the political and electoral myths of the post-communist transition, myths that have occupied the political agenda and the public debate throughout this period.
Alfred Bulai
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Partisan Goals and Electoral Interests: Brazilian Economic Reforms under Lula [PDF]
Almost everyone was surprised by the reforms proposed by the Lula administration in Brazil. Once in power, they proposed reforms they voted against when in opposition.
Maria Carolina da Silva Leme +1 more
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This time is different? Lessons from past reform initiatives in the Irish health system
AdministrationThe publication of the Sláintecare report in May 2017 is a landmark in Irish healthcare policy. For the first time in the history of the state, the Irish political system produced an agreed long-term vision for the health system.
Weir Stephen
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HOW GOVERNMENTS RESPOND TO BUSINESS DEMANDS FOR TAX CUTS: AN ANALYSIS OF CORPORATE AND INHERITANCE TAX REFORMS IN AUSTRIA AND SWEDEN. CES Open Forum Series 2018-2019 [PDF]
, 2019 This paper analyses government responsiveness to business demands for tax cuts, using case studies of reforms of corporate taxes and inheritance taxes in Austria and Sweden.
Klitgaard, Michael Baggesen +1 more
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Mechanical and Psychological Effects of Electoral Reform [PDF]
Duverger (1954) noted that changes in electoral systems will have two types of effects: mechanical effects, and reactions of political agents in anticipation of these, which he referred to as psychological effects.
Jon H. Fiva, Olle Folke
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