In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the level of democracy and fiscal-policy response to the …, our regressions with different measures of democracy as well as instrumental variable estimations support a robust and … causal relationship between a higher level of democracy and a larger fiscal-package size …

effects of direct democracy. Town meetings (popular assemblies) replace local councils in small German municipalities below a … specific population threshold. Difference-in-differences, RD and event study estimates consistently show that direct democracy …% under direct democracy. We do not find that business tax rates change. Direct democracy allows citizens to design tax …

extend the analysis to Liquid Democracy and find that, while it can be well suited to small scales communities, it faces …

One major challenge in testing whether direct democracy institutions increase governmental responsiveness is the …). Yet these studies find no evidence that direct democracy increases policy congruence with public preferences, even on … dynamic MRP estimates of attitudes toward homosexuality. We then test whether direct democracy institutions increase policy …

democracy too. Indeed, as we know from Albert Hirschman, citizens are facing a perennial dilemma between ‘voice’ and ‘exit’. The … prosperity on the other, the Union, for all the great things it provides, may subvert democracy in the member states. This effect … an argument that the EU ought to compensate its adverse effect on domestic democracy and (very briefly) discusses the …

emerged is the incorporation of deliberative democracy ideals into the governance framework of countries. This article's focus … governance practices that could constrain the potential of deliberative democracy, and by extension, the actualization of Nigeria …'s SDGs aspirations. This inquiry is essential because inserting deliberative democracy's precepts into Nigeria's existing …