. Regarding the second, Portugal’s fate lends credence to the thesis advanced by Mises that democracy is susceptible to …

of military dominance which undermined the civilian supremacy and affected the quality of democracy …

credentials and legitimacy. The normative appraisal depends on the conception of democracy adopted. While critics frequently … espouse a majoritarian conception, this paper argues that it is too thin of a model of democracy. Alternatively, it argues … that a pluralistic conception of liberal democracy is thicker, and truer to the fundamental values of liberty and political …

One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant about politics and … government. Many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in … evaluate what they do know. Democracy and Political Ignorance mines the depths of public ignorance in America and reveals it as …

The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …

economic crisis of 2008 have drawn renewed attention to the role of government in the economy. Studies of the relationship … between government size and economic growth have come up with a wide range of estimates of the "optimal" or growth …-maximizing size of government, ranging anywhere between 15 and 30 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). This paper argues that such …