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Does direct democracy make for better citizens? : a cautionary warning based on cross-country evidence

Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - In: Constitutional political economy 26 (2015) 4, pp. 391-420

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Gersbach, Hans - 2022

difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities … democracy. We survey a long period in the quest for such new forms and point to next inventions for such forms. We suggest to … experiment with new ways for democracy to extend the choice of democratic processes that can be implemented in real …

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Costs of change, political polarization, and re-election hurdles

Gersbach, Hans; Muller, Philippe; Tejada, Oriol - 2015 - This version: August 2015

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Indonesian politics in 2014 : democracy’s close call

Aspinall, Edward; Mietzner, Marcus - In: Bulletin of Indonesian economic studies 50 (2014) 3, pp. 347-369

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Does charisma discourage experience and encourage extremism? : the electoral strategies of a populist candidate

Serra, Gilles - 2017

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Policy reforms and the amount of checks & balances

Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol; Wagner, Julia - 2022

We examine how democracies choose their amount of checks and balances (C&B). For this purpose, we consider a simple model of political competition with costly policy reforms. The cost of a marginal reform is determined endogenously at the constitutional phase-i.e. before policies are...

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Recall elections : a tool of accountability? : evidence from Peru

Haman, Michael - In: Desarrollo y sociedad 87 (2021), pp. 73-111

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Electoral turnovers

Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Rollet, Vincent - 2022

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Analysis of the 2025 Bundestag elections : part 1 of 4 ; Imperfection of the electoral reform

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2025

This is the first of four articles on the 2025 German federal elections, continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 …, 2017 and 2021 elections. We begin with the 2023/24 electoral reform, which aimed to curb the uncontrolled growth of the …

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Analysis of the 2025 Bundestag elections : part 2 of 4 ; Representativeness of the parties and the Bundestag

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2025

This is the second out of four papers on the 2025 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 …, 2017 and 2021 Bundestag elections. We estimate the policy representation ability of the 29 parties that participated in the … 2025 elections and of the 2025 Bundestag. For this purpose, the parties' Yes/No answers to 38 topical questions are …

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