suggests that cascades which induce massive equilibrium changes are more likely to occur in regimes with centralized coercive … to trigger a cascade when authority is centralized. The model is applied to the severity of protests that followed … austerity measures taken in developing nations since the 1970s. …

suggests that cascades which induce massive equilibrium changes are more likely to occur in regimes with centralized coercive … to trigger a cascade to a vastly different equilibrium. The model is applied to the severity of protests that followed … austerity measures taken in developing nations since the 1970s. …

This paper describes institutions of direct democracy between 1997 and 2003 in 26 Swiss cantons (states), specifically …-legislative institutions are distinguished. This paper also provides calculations of the index and sub-indices of direct democracy for the … (1999) and Stutzer (1999) this paper includes the political institutions of the so-called Landsgemeinde cantons. Description …