Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized … process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly forgotten procedure to overcome this deficit: Aleatoric Democracy based on … considered. Persons and ideas, being so far disregarded, are taken into account. Democracy becomes vivid and creative, and does …

A cross-regional econometric analysis suggests that institutional factors in the form of direct democracy (via …

Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we …