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A Proposal for Rethinking the Origins and Future of Representative Government

open access: yesAnali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2007
In this paper, the author points to the need for conducting an in-depth study of the claim that representative democracy leads to intense political alienation and that it is in its final stage of decline.
John Keane
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Endogenous Lobbying [PDF]

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In this paper we present a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with endogenous lobbying. We find that lobbying induces policy compromise and always affects equilibrium policy outcomes.
Antonio Merlo, Leonardo Felli
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The representative function of the institutions of representative democracy: issues of implementation at the present stage

open access: yesИзвестия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки, 2021
Background. The function of representation is the main one among other functions of the institutions of representative democracy. At the same time, permanent transformations in the formation and organization of the activities of representative ...
M.A. Lipchanskaya
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It’s a Long Way from Helsingborg to Porto Alegre: A Case Study in Deliberative Democracy in Late Modernity

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2007
Since the 1990’s representative democracy has been challenged by a deliberative turn in political philosophy, reaching even into the practices of established political institutions.
Jakob Svensson
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Demokracja bezpośrednia w Austrii – praktyka i perspektywy rozwoju

open access: yesPoliteja, 2023
DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN AUSTRIA – PRACTICE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS First, the article traces the historical development of and legal regulations related to the instruments of direct democracy in the Second Republic.
Justyna Miecznikowska-Jerzak
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Deliberativa, diretta o partecipativa?

open access: yesQuaderni di Sociologia, 2014
Representative democracy is currently challenged in all Western political systems. In Italy this challenge in recent years has been launched in a distinctive way by the Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5s, Five Star Movement).
Antonio Floridia, Rinaldo Vignati
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Modulation of Homer1 EVH1 domain internal dynamics by putative autism‐associated mutations

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The putative autism‐associated M65I and S97L variants of the EVH1 domain of the postsynaptic scaffold protein Homer1 do not exhibit substantial changes in their overall structure or partner binding. Both of them, but especially the M65I variant, show altered internal dynamics relative to the wild‐type domain on the μs‐ms timescale, indicated by the ...
Fanni Farkas   +6 more
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Steven Blockmans and Sophia Russack (eds.): Representative Democracy in the EU: Recovering Legitimacy

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations, 2021
Representative democracy is beset by a crisis of legitimacy across the world, but in Europe this crisis is compounded by the inadequacy of national governments to address citizens’ frustrations and to achieve transnational unity on common issues.
Horler, Vanessa
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An unexpected alternative viologen electron mediator site in tungsten‐containing formate dehydrogenase

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
An unexpected alternative interaction site for ethyl viologen was identified in formate dehydrogenase 1 from Methylorubrum extorquens. Combined mutagenesis, kinetic analysis, and docking revealed that aromatic residues near an iron–sulfur cluster enable flavin mononucleotide‐independent electron transfer, offering a framework for engineering improved ...
Eleni G. Poloniataki, Yong Hwan Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Representative Democracy in the EU: Recovering Legitimacy. Research Paper. May 2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Representative democracy is beset by a crisis of legitimacy across the world, but in Europe this crisis is compounded by the inadequacy of national governments to address citizens’ frustrations and to achieve transnational unity on common issues.
Blockmans, Steven, Russack, Sophia
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