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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"direct democracy"”.
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Development of California municipal recall law
… While it is a principle inspired by the direct democracy campaign of the California progressives in the early twentieth century, it remains as an evolving legal process and dynamic political issue within the context of California political history.</p>
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No Stable Ground: Real Democracy in the Occupy Movement
… The core focus of this investigation is Occupy’s direct democratic processes and dynamics both as a way of making decisions as well as organising collectively. I draw on militant ethnographic, movement-relevant and participatory action research as well as on the theoretical concepts of Jacques …
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An Exploration of Efforts to Re-Define the Drug Problem Through State Ballot Measures
… an effort to link the problem definition and direct democracy literatures. This dissertation links the problem definition and direct democracy literatures, using drug policy as the vehicle and applying Stone's (2002) analytic framework of problem definition to make descriptive inferences about …
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ΑΥΤΟΔΙΟΙΚΗΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΙΚΗ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΥΝΗ 1942-1945. ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΩΝ ΝΟΜΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΩΝ ΘΕΣΜΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΑΝΤΙΣΤΑΣΗΣ
… RULES OF RESISTANCE'S LAW. ALSO, THE FORMS OF "DIRECT DEMOCRACY", WHICH CHARACTERIZED THE FIRST PERIOD (POPULAR CONVENTION WAS SOVEREIGN, THE MEMBERS OF INSTRUMENTS WERE ELECTED, RESPONSIBLE AND REVOCABLE) CONFINED AT 1943-1944, WHEN LEGAL REGULATIONS WAS AFFECTED OF OLD GREEK LAW.
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Politics of Electoral Reform: The Case of the United Kingdom’s 2011 Referendum on the Alternative Vote
… focuses on the tension between representative democracy and direct democracy and considers why the referendum became the pathway to decide on the issue. The third paper analyses the voting behaviour in the UK’s 2011 AV referendum and demonstrates that voters cast their votes based on cues and …
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Partisan politics in the southern cone: is there anything left for the left? Political institutions, privatisation and policy outcome
… power, and in the Uruguayan case, mechanisms of direct democracy, proved key determining factors.
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Active citizenship in the administrative state
… In political philosophy, the literature of direct democracy suggests that active citizens are people capable of learning to make decisive judgments in the public interest. But critics have held that the idea is unworkable: that modern governmental bureaucracies are too large and complex, …
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Participatory budgeting's contributions to environmental justice : evaluating Green Projects funded through Greensboro PB
… a solution to top-down governing that enhances democracy, boosts civic engagement, and meets growing demands for direct democracy. PB is a new practice in the U.S. and its contributions to distributive justice are not well defined. This professional report analyzes PB in Greensboro, North …
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Three essays in the economics of local public goods
… is used to test the prediction. The use of direct democracy to determine the provision level of local public goods in New Hampshire provides a uniquely appropriate environment in which to conduct the test. The results provide support for the theoretical prediction. Chapter Two examines the …
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Constitutional tax limits at the state level: an overview and selected case studies
… historical accounts suggest that representative democracy does not always yield socially desired outcomes and that the citizen initiative, a form of direct democracy, may provide a workable means of circumventing many problems associated with representative democracy.
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A comparative study of how political journalists in four European countries reported on the coronavirus pandemic
… in the Swiss case is reinforced by a layer of direct democracy though regular referenda. The political systems in the UK and France while differing, share a majoritarian and indeed adversarial political culture. All have dominant, regulated public broadcasters. Despite the many differences the …
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Participatory democracy and urban school governance: Toward a developmental conception
… based upon the ""developmental"" conception of democracy derived from the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, John Dewey, and Mohandes K. Gandhi. In the process the philosophical underpinnings of current school governance, as well as school-based management …
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The referendum lighthouse: how state-level initiatives drive voter turnout
This thesis examines the use of ballot initiatives at the state level to determine whether the presence of certain types of ballot initiatives cause an increase in voter turnout at the state level. This study is unique in that rather than focusing on individual level voting behavior to explain why …
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Contemporary democratic separatist movements: The politics of new state creation by referendum
This is a comprehensive analysis of the conditions under which new states have been, and may be, created through exclusively democratic means. Existing literature explains the majority of such cases: those that occurred through the processes of decolonization, or through the break up of …
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Diversity and Expertise in Representative Governance
Representative democracy is a widespread and essential part of democratic governance. Our understanding of it has been largely shaped by the triumph of elections that vest peripheral access to power through episodical polls. How would representative democracy look under different selection rules? …
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Ballot Readability and Plain Language
<p>The goal of this study was to examine the effect that readability and plain language had on voters' responses to Georgia's five legislatively-referred constitutional amendments (LRCA) in the November 2018 election. This study sought to answer the following questions regarding ballot readability …
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Why Ratification? Questioning the Unexamined Constitution-making Procedure
… constitution-making in which the people take direct action on the constitution. This limits the justification to ratification procedures involving referenda, and requires that voters make a meaningful choice on the proposed constitution, i.e. they must choose whether to accept or reject a …
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Postmaterialism and Democracy: What Does the Postmaterialist Value Shift Mean for Democracy?
… a postmaterialist value shift on the future of democracy in advanced industrial democratic countries. Research over the past few decades has questioned the responsiveness of representative democratic institutions in advanced industrial democracies to individual and communal needs in society. …