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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.
Vanessa Horler
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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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Transforming representative democracy in the EU? The role of the European Parliament

open access: yesPolitical Leadership in the European Union, 2017
Parliaments are not generally conceived of as leaders. However, the European Parliament (EP) has played a pivotal leadership role in transforming the character of representative democracy at EU level.
M. Shackleton
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Proxy of democracy? : metaphors of connection as arguments against representation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper aims to assess the arguments that claim representative democracy may be enhanced or replaced by an updated electronic version. Focusing on the dimension of elections and electioneering as the core mechanism of representative democracy I will ...
Cuono, Massimo
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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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Rethinking representative democracy in Croatia

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
The article analyses the development of representative democracy in Croatia from its independence to today. During the 1990s, Croatia changed its electoral system several times and had a bicameral parliament.
Hrvoje Butković
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Breakdown by disengagement: Tunisia’s transition from representative democracy

open access: yesPolitical Research Exchange, 2023
On 25 July 2021, Tunisian president Kais Saied suspended parliament, lifted the immunity of its members, and dismissed the prime minister and the government.
Kevin Koehler
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The multiple hierarchical legislatures in representative democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Multiple hierarchical models of representative democracies in which, for instance, voters elect county representatives, county representatives elect district representatives, district representatives elect state representatives and state representatives ...
Kobayashi, Katsuya, Tasnádi, Attila
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Mauro Dorato, Science and Representative Democracy: Experts and Citizens, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 200pp., £85.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781350277724. [PDF]

open access: yesManuscrito
Mauro Dorato's "Science and Representative Democracy" argues for the essential link between science and democracy. He posits both as problem-solving systems, advocating for representative democracy to integrate scientific knowledge into policy and ...
BRUNO BORGE
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The Impact of Referendums on the Centralisation of Public Goods Provision: A Political Economy Approach [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper compares decision-making on the centralisation of public goods provision in the presence of regional externalities under representative and direct democratic institutions.
Christoph A. Schaltegger   +2 more
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