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 …

literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …

literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …

democracy. The Third Vote has been approbated and improved during the 2016, 2017 and 2018 elections to the Student Parliament …

We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected … in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from … federal direct democracy. In the medium to longer term, more federal propositions on the ballot rather relate to higher …