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Hope vs. Fear: The Debate Over a State Constitutional Convention [PDF]
, 2017 On November 7, 2017, New Yorkers will go to their polling places and receive ballots containing a thirteen-word referendum question: “Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?” That question appears on the ballot because ...
Greenberg, Henry M.
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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Does direct democracy reduce the size of government? New evidence from historical data, 1890-2000 [PDF]
Using historical data for all Swiss cantons from 1890 to 2000, we estimate the causal effect of direct democracy on government spending. The main innovation in this paper is that we use fixed effects to control for unobserved heterogeneity and ...
Christina Gathmann, Patricia Funk
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore +2 more
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The Referendum and after: Scotland’s constitutional future [PDF]
, 2016 No abstract ...
Mullen, Tom
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National identity after conquest
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Conquering powers routinely adopt state‐directed nationalization projects that seek to make the boundaries of the nation coterminous with the (newly expanded) boundaries of the state. To this end, they implement policies that elevate the economic status of individuals who embrace the occupier's national identity and discriminate against those ...
Christopher Carter, Daniel W. Gingerich
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Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 2011 The revision procedure combines specific techniques of the representative democracy with those specific to direct democracy, both by enshrining popular constitutional initiative, and by giving the social corpus the possibility to ...
Ştefan Alexandru BĂIŞANU
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Cleavage Referendums: Ideological Decisions and Transformational Political Change
Politics and GovernanceReferendum use has been increasing around the world. In some cases, referendum devices are incorporated into the institutional architecture of the state while in many others, referendums are used in an, and often consultative manner, to determine ...
Theresa Reidy
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