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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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European Journal of Political Research, EarlyView.Abstract The existing literature debates how war can precipitate shifts in electoral coalitions. However, what remains unclear are the underlying cultural contestations affected by war, including how homo‐ and transphobia have been weaponized politically as a key social division during wartime elections.
PHILLIP M. AYOUB +2 more
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On the strategic use of representative democracy in international agreements [PDF]
We consider as endogenous the choice of the delegation' rule in a political integration process between two countries. We study three potential types of delegation: strong, weak or no delegation, this last case corresponding to a referendum. We show that
Grégoire Rota-Graziosi
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THE SEATTLE REFERENDUM APPROPRIATING $125,000 FOR A MUNICIPAL SANITARIUM
, 1914 John Weinzirl
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The euro - what's in it for me? An economic analysis of the Swedish euro referendum of 2003 [PDF]
The Swedish referendum on the euro in September 2003 is an exceptional event for researchers of monetary unions and of European economic integration. Voters chose between maintaining the domestic currency, the krona, and replacing it with the euro, the ...
Jonas Vlachos, Lars Jonung
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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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Referendumul în România – între utilitate şi utilizare
Sfera Politicii, 2011 The referendum in Romania has become an increasingly used method for consulting the citizens both in legislative issues, but also in the administrative ones. However, not all the results of a plebiscite can be imposed in the parliamentary forum.
Antonio Glodeanu
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Cognitive ability and voting behaviour in the 2016 UK referendum on European Union membership. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Dawson C, Baker PL.
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British Balance of Competence Reviews, Part I: ‘Competences about right, so far’. EPIN Working Paper No. 35, October 2013 [PDF]
, 2013 The first in a series for a CEPS-EPIN project entitled “The British Question and the Search for a Fresh European Narrative” this paper is pegged on an ambitious ongoing exercise by the British government to review all the competences of the European ...
Blockmans, Steven., Emerson, Michael
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