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Representative Democracy and the Populist Temptation [PDF]

, 2011
My topic sounds rather conventional in terms of a traditional institutional approach. But the ‘enlightened neo-institutionalists’ of our days came back to the old controversies of the late 1940s when in the United States a debate was waged whether one should introduce a parliamentary system in the USA.
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Representative Democracy

Despite the not-so-distant invocations of the “end of history,” representative democracy is, today, under siege even from corners where one once might have expected strong sympathy and support.
Dimitri Landa, Ryan Pevnick
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Gerrymander-proof representative democracies

International Journal of Game Theory, 2011
This article is devoted to the analysis of electoral systems involving two step procedures. It appears that designers are able to manipulate the result of these type of elections by gerrymandering, except in a very few cases. When imposing an unanimity condition on every jurisdiction's voting rule, it is shown that, for any finite number of candidates,
Merlin, Vincent, Bervoets, Sebastian
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Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies

2023
The familiar problems of democratic capitalism have given way to a deep crisis challenging the basic forms of governance introduced around the late 18th century and then gradually expanded and developed until the late 20th century. Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies argues that we are in urgent need of normative ...
Veit Bader, Marcel Maussen
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The Limits of Representative Democracy

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2009
We are conversant today with a variety of democratic deficits. There is the gap between the promise and performance of democracy; then there is also the gap between the success of procedural democr...
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The Masses in Representative Democracy

1961
The course of modern European history has thrown up a character whom we are accustomed to call the ‘mass man’. His appearance is spoken of as the most significant and far-reaching of all the revolutions of modern times. He is credited with having transformed our way of living, our standards of conduct and our manners of political activity.
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Lobbying and Welfare in a Representative Democracy

The Review of Economic Studies, 2001
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Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate
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Representative democracy?

, 2021
R. Johnston, C. Pattie, D. Rossiter
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Engendering representative democracy

2011
Introduction Fifty years ago politics was totally male dominated. In any political institution, a woman was an exception, a stranger. Since then, a process of engendering has taken place in politics, even if women are still vastly under-represented. It has been a slow process with great variations in time and space, and not without backlashes. But in
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The Future of Representative Democracy

2011
The Future of Representative Democracy poses important questions about representation, representative democracy and their future. Inspired by the last major investigation of the subject by Hanna Pitkin over four decades ago, this ambitious volume fills a major gap in the literature by examining the future of representative forms of democracy in terms ...
Alonso Sáenz de Oger, Sonia, Keane, John, Merkel, Wolfgang   +2 more
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