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In the present essay we analyse the links between the emergence of new arms and forms of war-emergence, the phalanx and its hoplites, and the trieres at sea, its economic base, and the emergence of democracy in classical Greece. We propose that the unique till then in the world phalanx...
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We develop a theory of democratization that integrates both electoral calculations and economic incentives to explain the institutional choices of political actors. Left-leaning (liberal) politicians, who, given their location in the policy space, are more likely to receive the support of newly...
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Jürgen Habermas has recently warned that the sovereign debt crisis in Europe is transforming democratic governments into ‘economic government' threatening not only economic disaster but the end of the world's first supranational project — the European Union. And, according to Habermas,...
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. However, the introduction of elections and other early trappings of democracy often has the perverse effect of exacerbating …
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In the third decade of the 21st century, digitization, global events, challenges from authoritarian states, and difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities that will force it to reinvent itself. The last decades...
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their preferences on policy issues as declared in the party manifestos (like in VAAs - voting advice applications, e … economic implications of elections, or of single decisions like Bexit or involvement in a new war) is supposed to make vote … democracy. The Third Vote has been approbated and improved during the 2016, 2017 and 2018 elections to the Student Parliament …
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