commissioned in 2022 a meta-evaluation of Human Rights & Democracy thematic projects. It consists of a meta-evaluation of 50 … interventions, primarily supported under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) and grouped around the …

democracy, paying special attention to the citizens' legislative initiative and the citizen-initiated referendum. By carrying …

democracy, paying special attention to the citizens' legislative initiative and the citizen-initiated referendum. By carrying …

fast enough. In this introduction to the special issue, we argue that current debates about the democracy …, they are united in the belief that standard procedures of liberal democracy are insufficient to achieve sustainability. …

consequences of local democracy, exploiting a natural experiment in Karnataka, India. Local elections were postponed in 2020 … democracy. The findings show that local democracy aligns spending more closely with citizen preferences, but these gains accrue … are aligned with their specialized skills. Local democracy improves governance in some domains, but it has no overall …

Recently, many studies have examined the ICT-economic growth relationship and the democracy-economic growth linkage … with conflicting results. However, the study on the moderating effect of internet and mobile usage on the democracy … the impact of internet and mobile usage on the democracy-economic growth relationship in 26African economies over the …

Applying complexity theory tenets in analyzing findings from prior research on the impacts of democracy and … empirically tests algorithms on how democracy and authoritarianism impact QOL and happiness. The propositions include the … following views. First, full democracy (D) is necessary but insufficient in indicating high QOL and high happiness. The research …

, cross-national research yields contradictory findings. Previous research finds that democracy increases forest loss … between four measures of democracy (polyarchy, vertical, diagonal, and horizontal) and three national governance measures (i … suggest that democracy decreases forest loss more at higher levels of governance than lower levels of governance. These …