Ein Finanzparlament oder vergleichbares Gremium anderen Namens würde finanzielle Entscheidungen treffen oder zumindest kontrollieren für seine jeweilige Organisation, sei diese ein Staat, eine internationale Vereinigung oder ein Verein. Stimmrechte für ein Finanzparlament würden nicht nach...

Es wird vorgeschlagen, die individuellen Steuerzahler jeweils entscheiden zu lassen, wofür die von ihnen gezahlten Steuern verwendet werden sollen, z. B. durch Zuweisung an einzelne Haushaltstitel oder größere Positionen im Staatshaushalt. Außerdem sollen die Steuerzahler wählen dürfen,...

Georgien befindet sich an einer Weggabelung: innenpolitisch durch den Rückbau demokratischer Errungenschaften, außenpolitisch durch eine Rekonfiguration seiner Außenbeziehungen. Beeinflusst werden diese Dynamiken durch geopolitische Disruptionen in der Region und auf globaler Ebene. Im Umgang...

Unsere Diskurskultur muss auf Vordermann gebracht werden, wenn Demokratie nicht misslingen soll. Diskursversagen wird ausgelöst, wenn der freie Gedankenaustausch zwischen den politischen Lagern unterbunden wird. Dies ist dort der Fall, wo das jeweilige Gegenüber im Schema von 'gut' und 'böse'...

Es wird vorgeschlagen, die individuellen Steuerzahler jeweils entscheiden zu lassen, wofür die von ihnen gezahlten Steuern verwendet werden sollen, z. B. durch Zuweisung an einzelne Haushaltstitel oder größere Positionen im Staatshaushalt. Außerdem sollen die Steuerzahler wählen dürfen,...

"Pendular Voting" presents a novel two-stage voting procedure: A randomly chosen citizen group votes on a proposal replacing the status quo. Depending on the outcome, a "counterproposal" ensues, that is closer to/further away from the status quo than the original proposal. All citizens vote...

European NATO members must raise defence spending by enough to deter through strength an irredentist Russia. This must be done possibly without the United States and when ageing populations demand higher social spending. Raising defence spending to sufficient levels could result in a doubling of...

How can we better understand the relationship between capitalism and democracy today? This article challenges the prevailing "independence thesis" that views capitalism and democracy as separate and often antagonistic systems. By revisiting Adam Smith's integrationist approach to political...

The Commissioner-designate made a number of commitments in his written and oral responses. These are highlighted in this document, which has been produced to support Parliament's scrutiny of the Commission over the course of the 2024-2029 term, including through the Committees' annual structured...

The Commissioner-designate made a number of commitments in his written and oral responses. These are highlighted in this document, which has been produced to support Parliament's scrutiny of the Commission over the course of the 2024-2029 term, including through the Committees' annual structured...

The project 'Building capacity for evidence-informed policymaking in governance and public administration in a post-pandemic Europe' was inspired by the need of Member States to respond to complex policy issues requiring specialised knowledge, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic led to a...

We investigate the influence of boardroom gender diversity on earnings management. Drawing on a sample of European firms over the 2010-2023 period, we document an inverted U-shaped nexus between boardroom gender heterogeneity and earnings manipulation. Moreover, we also find that the Democracy...

Ludwig Mises' interest in large-scale problems concerning the institutional framework and social as well as economic requirements for a well-functioning economy, makes Mises’ writings on supranational governance particularly interesting. Based on a reading of his German language publications...

This paper examines the electoral cycle and the conduct of the central government’s fiscal policy. It uses a panel database with disaggregated spending and revenue series for 34 middle-income countries over 2000-2022. A dynamic panel approach was used to look at overall government spending and...

The global geopolitical planes have shifted with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war in Gaza. These geopolitical shifts have revealed how intimately connected democracy is to geopolitics, and how vulnerable are nascent and transitional democratic societies to external...

This article investigates the political cost of poverty in democracies marked by deep social divisions. We develop a probabilistic voting model that incorporates clientelism as a strategic tool employed by elite political parties to secure electoral support from non-elite voters. Unlike models...

This research note presents an open-source version of the ParlGov website and discusses the state of cross-national data on parties, elections, and cabinets. The ParlGov project is a prominent political science data infrastructure with information for EU and OECD democracies since 1900. The data...

Mahadevan and Shenoy (2023) assesses the use of state influence on funding for welfare programs in West Bengal for political targeting during periods of economic distress. Using a multidimensional regression discontinuity design, the authors find a misallocation of funding for a make-work...

The present paper offers a systemic literature review on the concept of degrowth by envisioning its impact on democracy. In so doing it first uses the methodology called SPIDER by building on a number of relevant literatures derived from Scopus. Second, it introduces a variety of degrowth...

Deliberative decision-making is often proposed as a mechanism to mitigate polarization in democratic processes. However, empirical evidence remains mixed, with some studies suggesting that deliberation among like-minded individuals can drive preference shifts toward extremes. We use a...

Previous research has established a link between democratic governance and sustainable economic growth. Yet, over the past decade, we have witnessed a global decline of democratic institutions across a wide range of political contexts. How has this erosion of democracy affected countries'...

This paper examines the impact of using the Internet and social networks as sources of information on individuals' understanding of democracy. The analysis draws on data from the sixth round of the Afrobarometer survey, conducted in 2014, across a sample of African countries, some of which are...

This paper investigates how democracy influences economic growth through innovation and institutional quality. Using an augmented Solow growth model and panel-data mediation analysis across 123 countries (2011-2022), we quantify democracy's impact on GDP per capita. Our results show that...

Using a variety of indicators, the study tries to analyze the impact of democracy on gender equality for a sample of 159 countries across the world. For this purpose, the study used static panel data models and applied various tests of robustness to estimate the impact of democracy on gender...

As part of the confirmation hearings process, Executive Vice-President-designate Henna Virkkunen responded in writing to questions posed by Parliament and appeared before the ITRE and IMCO committees on 12 November 2024 to answer further questions from MEPs belonging to those committees, as well...

As part of the confirmation hearings process, Executive Vice-President-designate Henna Virkkunen responded in writing to questions posed by Parliament and appeared before the ITRE and IMCO committees on 12 November 2024 to answer further questions from MEPs belonging to those committees, as well...

Ein Finanzparlament oder vergleichbares Gremium anderen Namens würde finanzielle Ent­scheidungen treffen oder zumindest kontrollieren für seine jeweilige Organisation, sei diese ein Staat, eine internationale Vereinigung oder ein Verein. Stimmrechte für ein Finanz­parlament würden nicht...