, they have been criticized as promoting technocracy to the detriment of democracy. A number of political scientists even … direct democracy, representative democracy, and expert decision-making. …

Seidel Foundation - as actors of democracy assistance in Egypt post 25 January 2011 revolution. It explores the relation … limitations were determining variables undermining the success of the GPFs in the area of democracy assistance in Egypt post 2011 … international actors of democracy assistance in Egypt post 25 January 2011 revolution, considering the restrictive political …

assesses to what extent the EU succeeds to promote democracy in Egypt. Design/methodology/approach - The EU pursues its policy … democracy promotion that witnessed some successes but with extremely modest results in some areas compared to the costs of the …, and the EU has not an effective role in promoting democracy in Egypt. …

evolutionary approach to Democracy highlights new political paradoxes and dilemmas that must be explored, monitored and faced in a …

Pivato and Soh [Pivato, M., Soh, A., 2020. Weighted representative democracy. Journal of Mathematical Economics 88 …, the decisions made by the legislature will be the same as the decisions that would have been reached by a direct democracy …

general democracy index for 87 countries shows that a higher degree of direct democracy leads to lower budget deficits and …

This paper investigates on the demographic, economic, political and cultural determinants of direct democracy in 87 … countries using an index of direct democracy. The test is interesting since there are important variations across these … the estimation technique. Political rights and stability also work as prerequisites to direct democracy. Direct democracy …