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The UN Goldstone Report and retraction : an empirical investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
democracy score was some 55 percentage points less likely to vote in favor of the second of the two UN Goldstone resolutions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488128
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Direct democracy : chances and challenges
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2015 - Extended written version, May 2015
the functioning of direct democracy. As a political system it only makes sense if there exists a continuous process and … not if only occasional single questions are brought to a referendum. Then, the relation between direct democracy and the … points that should be observed to safeguard the well-functioning of direct democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528966
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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?
Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001
thus supports the notion that there is a positive relationship between democracy and economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397998
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Populism and civil society
Boeri, Tito; Mishra, Prachi; Papageorgiou, Chris; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038251
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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698819
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The role of direct democracy in the European Union
Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2003
discussion of the pros and cons of direct democracy, the ability of direct democracy to help creating a European demos is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511096
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Future European alliance : Europe as a flexible democracy
Frey, Bruno S.; Steuernagel, Armin; Friedrich, Jonas - 2018
A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919540
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Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826060
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Future European Alliance - Europe as a Flexible Democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2019
A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892304
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Populism and social polarization in European democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor; Perelman, Sergio; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257814