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Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
wiley   +1 more source

Epistocracy and the Commitment Problem

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The epistocracy debate has turned largely on the character of the electorate—what voters know, whether competence filters can be designed well, and what filtered selection produces. Another strand has focused on the legitimacy of epistocratic justifications. I ask instead about the equilibrium effects of the institution.
Simon Goldstein
wiley   +1 more source

Braking and Exiting: Referendum Games, European Integration and the Road to the UK's Brexit Vote. [PDF]

Polit Stud Rev
Ganderson J, Kyriazi A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sleepless in Society: Introducing the Concept of Public Sleep. [PDF]

Clocks Sleep
Cunningham TJ, Zeng S, Song SH.
europepmc   +1 more source

REFERENDUM [PDF]

Anthropology News, 1961
openaire   +1 more source

Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether there can be multiple present moments. After presenting some reasons for thinking that the question is worthwhile, I challenge several objections to its possibility: worries about the exclusivity of tense; the nature of change, tense logic and semantics; and the apparent tension between multiple presents and an ...
Nikk Effingham
wiley   +1 more source

Procedural Justice in Environmental Decision Making: An Analysis of Public Participation Language in State Level Cumulative Impact Legislation. [PDF]

Environ Justice
Schulz AJ, Rempel Fisher GM, Nadeem A, Savoie K, Israel BA, Landrum T, Stanley E, Sampson N.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bonds on the Ballot: What Voters (Don't) Know About Debt Financing and Why It Matters

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract American subnational governments commonly require voters to approve bond proposals, reflecting historical concerns about legislative shortsightedness. Yet voters need an understanding of how bond financing works to make choices consistent with preferences. Existing literature makes it unclear whether voters have such knowledge.
Shanna Pearson‐Merkowitz, Joshua J. Dyck, Edward L. Lascher Jr., Corey Lang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

R/DoctorsUK (Sampling Bias in Action): How English Junior Doctors Pay Referendum Results Compared to Those Predicted on the Doctors UK Reddit. [PDF]

Cureus
Blenkinsop L.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Power of Renewal: Status Quo Bias Impacts Voter Approval of School Spending Referendums

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract Status quo bias often impacts decisions about private goods and is hypothesized to influence voter choice. This paper offers a clean, direct, real‐world test of status quo bias's effect on voter support for school spending. We take advantage of a unique Minnesota rule that requires ballot language to disclose and distinguish between new and ...
Corey Lang, Rachel Ricchio
wiley   +1 more source