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Cybergeo, 2012 The “local democracy” law adopted in France in February 2002 has institutionalized urban neighborhoods as new political spaces for participative democracy.
Anne-Lise Humain-Lamoure
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Leaders, Followers, and Free Riders: The Community Lawyer’s Dilemma When Representing Non-Democratic Client Organizations [PDF]
, 2004 This article will explore various aspects of the dissonance between the democratic ideal and the reality of groups in disenfranchised and disempowered communities.
Diamond, Michael R., O\u27Toole, Aaron
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Urban PlanningAs the tier of government closest to people, local government plays a key role in answering local needs and aspirations. However, local governments are often under-resourced, leaving them inadequately responsive to many of these critical local demands ...
Jua Cilliers +3 more
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Political Rents in a Non-Corrupt Democracy [PDF]
A fundamental problem in all political systems is that the people in power may extract rents to the detriment of the general public. In a democracy, electoral competition and information provided by the media may keep such rent extraction at bay.
Svaleryd, Helena, Vlachos, Jonas
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L'Espace Politique, 2012 This article highlights the role of the dominant political party (Frelimo) in urban governance in Maputo. Based on a study of local politics and local political practices, this paper analyzes how a number of precepts related to "good governance" are ...
Karine Ginisty, Jeanne Vivet
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Historical Origins of Schooling: The Role of Democracy and Political Decentralization [PDF]
Why does schooling attainment vary widely across countries? Why are differences in schooling attainment highly persistent? I show that cross-country differences in schooling are related to political institutions, such as democracy and local democracy ...
Francisco Gallego
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La démocratie locale en quartiers à Paris : une ségrégation territoriale ?
L'Espace Politique, 2010 The law on “local democracy” adopted in February 2002 imposes in Paris the creation of participative subdivisions within the territories of municipalities (arrondissements).
Anne-Lise Humain-Lamoure
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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
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Les contradictions d’un espace public produit dans la proximité
L'Espace Politique, 2010 The present article provides a critical analysis of urban governance as it is applied to public spaces in inner Paris. For a long time, the centralised city administration was solely interested in technical and functional aspects.
Antoine Fleury
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Development, Good Governance, and Local Democracy
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2008 This article analyses the concept of “good governance” as promoted by the international development community, above all by the World Bank, within the predominant neoliberal development approach, emphasising the implications for local governance and management in developing countries.
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