Unbundling Democracy
... benefits: first, secure property rights increase output by lowering uncertainty and transaction costs; second, mobility rights with respect to location, employment and education increase output by improving the allocation of human capital resources. By their very nature, many of these benefits to so ...
... benefits: first, secure property rights increase output by lowering uncertainty and transaction costs; second, mobility rights with respect to location, employment and education increase output by improving the allocation of human capital resources. By their very nature, many of these benefits to so ...
Constitutional Secession Rights, Blackmail Threats and
... protecting and promoting its distinctive culture and language. At the federal level, recognition space is distributed amongst the component nations, so that no official identity dominates or is neglected in the shared institutions and symbols. The federal state may also grant official recognition to ...
... protecting and promoting its distinctive culture and language. At the federal level, recognition space is distributed amongst the component nations, so that no official identity dominates or is neglected in the shared institutions and symbols. The federal state may also grant official recognition to ...
Political Irrelevance, Democracy, and the Limits of Militarized Conflict
... and conflict. They note that the ‘‘loss-of-strength gradient’’ understanding of the relationship between distance and war proneness is incomplete. Instead, distance also generally affects ‘‘the structure of risks and opportunities that influence the decision calculus of policymakers’’ (p. 6). They s ...
... and conflict. They note that the ‘‘loss-of-strength gradient’’ understanding of the relationship between distance and war proneness is incomplete. Instead, distance also generally affects ‘‘the structure of risks and opportunities that influence the decision calculus of policymakers’’ (p. 6). They s ...
The American Ideal of Representative Democracy
... of consensus and homogeneity with attitudes toward democratic procedures is limited. Perceptions of consensus and homogeneity, which are largely a function of national identity, are only positively related to support for the decision-making power of the public insofar as that decision-making happens ...
... of consensus and homogeneity with attitudes toward democratic procedures is limited. Perceptions of consensus and homogeneity, which are largely a function of national identity, are only positively related to support for the decision-making power of the public insofar as that decision-making happens ...
EXTRATERRITORIAL POLITICAL RIGHTS AND DUAL
... American countries have been the ones dictating the constitutional and legislative changes, not only to extend citizen rights to nationals abroad but also to enable them to become dual citizens. Dual nationality and voting abroad have been debated simultaneously, because both concern the migrant c ...
... American countries have been the ones dictating the constitutional and legislative changes, not only to extend citizen rights to nationals abroad but also to enable them to become dual citizens. Dual nationality and voting abroad have been debated simultaneously, because both concern the migrant c ...
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... The social studies program at the kindergarten level focuses on helping students develop awareness of themselves as growing individuals. Children’s unique qualities as well as similarities to others are stressed. Children learn about values, ideas, customs, and traditions through folktales, legends, ...
... The social studies program at the kindergarten level focuses on helping students develop awareness of themselves as growing individuals. Children’s unique qualities as well as similarities to others are stressed. Children learn about values, ideas, customs, and traditions through folktales, legends, ...
The rise of `new social classes` within the service class in the
... that makes it difficult to measure the performance of social and cultural specialist by others. For this reason it is difficult for employers to monitor the results of employees of these occupations (Freidson, 1986). ...
... that makes it difficult to measure the performance of social and cultural specialist by others. For this reason it is difficult for employers to monitor the results of employees of these occupations (Freidson, 1986). ...
Political Liberalism, Political Independence, and Moral Authority
... One doesn’t have to be a consequentialist, or even a welfarist, about morality to accept Welfare as Reason. This reason could be overruled, perhaps even trivially overruled, by a wide range of agent-centered permissions, restrictions, etc. But it seems entirely implausible to believe that our moral ...
... One doesn’t have to be a consequentialist, or even a welfarist, about morality to accept Welfare as Reason. This reason could be overruled, perhaps even trivially overruled, by a wide range of agent-centered permissions, restrictions, etc. But it seems entirely implausible to believe that our moral ...
CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY WHICH CRISIS? WHICH DEMOCARCY?
... Political theory from its very onset has determined that democracy is inconceivable without a crisis. This applies to the ancient writings of Plato, Aristotle, Polybios to the modern era with writings of Tocqueville, Marx and Max Weber or since 1970ies the leftists Jürgen Habermas (1973) and Claus O ...
... Political theory from its very onset has determined that democracy is inconceivable without a crisis. This applies to the ancient writings of Plato, Aristotle, Polybios to the modern era with writings of Tocqueville, Marx and Max Weber or since 1970ies the leftists Jürgen Habermas (1973) and Claus O ...
Commentary - SAGE Publications
... authoritarianism than one that takes its lead from his attribution of ‘truth’ and ‘deeper insight’ to small groups of men. In this alternative conception, political theorizing is a dynamic relationship, maintaining a feedback loop between the ethical concerns driving the theory and the ethical exper ...
... authoritarianism than one that takes its lead from his attribution of ‘truth’ and ‘deeper insight’ to small groups of men. In this alternative conception, political theorizing is a dynamic relationship, maintaining a feedback loop between the ethical concerns driving the theory and the ethical exper ...
Working Paper Number 145 `Social Movements, Public Policy, and
... calculations the necessary investment could reach USD 60 billions in a twenty years horizon (Elías Ayub, 2005). That is, in the following two decades it will be necessary to negotiate the implementation of projects whose investment requirements may be equivalent to twenty airports similar to the one ...
... calculations the necessary investment could reach USD 60 billions in a twenty years horizon (Elías Ayub, 2005). That is, in the following two decades it will be necessary to negotiate the implementation of projects whose investment requirements may be equivalent to twenty airports similar to the one ...
The Limits of Design: Explaining Institutional Origins and Change
... Political scientists have paid much more attention to the effects of institutions than to issues of institutional origins and change. One result has been a marked tendency to fall back on implicit or explicit functional accounts, in which the effects of institutions explain the presence of those ins ...
... Political scientists have paid much more attention to the effects of institutions than to issues of institutional origins and change. One result has been a marked tendency to fall back on implicit or explicit functional accounts, in which the effects of institutions explain the presence of those ins ...
Hartz on American Liberal Tradition
... view of nature of Newtonian physics over into social thinking. Mr. Hartz mentions only Locke. He does not point out that American history began in the seventeenth century, synchronous with the climax of the scientific revolution. As Newton influenced his younger friend Locke, scientific thinking has ...
... view of nature of Newtonian physics over into social thinking. Mr. Hartz mentions only Locke. He does not point out that American history began in the seventeenth century, synchronous with the climax of the scientific revolution. As Newton influenced his younger friend Locke, scientific thinking has ...
What is legitimacy and why does it matter for peace?
... context and there are basic ways of working that external or international peacebuilders can usefully employ: “do no harm” by not (unwittingly or intentionally) imposing inappropriate political processes on local populations; spend more time listening to (and not just talking to) local populations; ...
... context and there are basic ways of working that external or international peacebuilders can usefully employ: “do no harm” by not (unwittingly or intentionally) imposing inappropriate political processes on local populations; spend more time listening to (and not just talking to) local populations; ...
sapountzis
... 1999; Glad & Taber, 1990). This paper focuses on the way lay people members of political parties in Greece mobilized the notion of national interest within an interview context about the animosity between Greece and FYROM. The analysis of the interviews draws attention to the ways participants used ...
... 1999; Glad & Taber, 1990). This paper focuses on the way lay people members of political parties in Greece mobilized the notion of national interest within an interview context about the animosity between Greece and FYROM. The analysis of the interviews draws attention to the ways participants used ...
Morality - Contention 1
... we will wonder if you are wasting your time with a job. All of our goals must be justified at some point by something taken to be worthy as a goal for its own sake, or its not clear that any of our goals are really justified. Final ends – Final ends are goals that we think are worthy. Pleasure, surv ...
... we will wonder if you are wasting your time with a job. All of our goals must be justified at some point by something taken to be worthy as a goal for its own sake, or its not clear that any of our goals are really justified. Final ends – Final ends are goals that we think are worthy. Pleasure, surv ...
Reconciliation as a Political Value
... minimal than the requirements of justice. Consider the case of a political order that is widely accepted, and that permits contestation over remaining disagreements in democratic fora, under background conditions of political equality. There might be socio-economic inequalities in such a society tha ...
... minimal than the requirements of justice. Consider the case of a political order that is widely accepted, and that permits contestation over remaining disagreements in democratic fora, under background conditions of political equality. There might be socio-economic inequalities in such a society tha ...
3. Concentration of power in dictatorships
... squared residuals. I then perform the Goldfeld-Quandt test to see if there is reason to reject a H0 of homoskedasticity when comparing the subgroups of observations classified after regime type. First I check the dichotomous classification used above, categorizing all observations with FHI larger th ...
... squared residuals. I then perform the Goldfeld-Quandt test to see if there is reason to reject a H0 of homoskedasticity when comparing the subgroups of observations classified after regime type. First I check the dichotomous classification used above, categorizing all observations with FHI larger th ...
1 Blaming Europe? Exploring the Variable Impact of National Public
... model. While its core assumptions have been examined in several studies (i.e. Jenssen, Gilljam and Pesonen 1998; Marsh 1999; Mau 2005b; Hix 2007), it has been most rigorously formulated and tested by Gabel (1998). His model has three building blocks. First, it makes a distinction between utilitarian ...
... model. While its core assumptions have been examined in several studies (i.e. Jenssen, Gilljam and Pesonen 1998; Marsh 1999; Mau 2005b; Hix 2007), it has been most rigorously formulated and tested by Gabel (1998). His model has three building blocks. First, it makes a distinction between utilitarian ...
Samuel P - El blog de Jesús Silva
... rise to the surface, challenging established institutions and existing practices, Huntington argues, as it did in the “Revolutionary era of the 1760s and 1770s, the Jacksonian age of the 1820s and 1830s, and the Populist-Progressive years of the 1890s and the 1900s.” Huntington contrasted his argume ...
... rise to the surface, challenging established institutions and existing practices, Huntington argues, as it did in the “Revolutionary era of the 1760s and 1770s, the Jacksonian age of the 1820s and 1830s, and the Populist-Progressive years of the 1890s and the 1900s.” Huntington contrasted his argume ...
Populism and Nationalism: Implications for the
... demands that politics be opened up to stigmatised groups (the poor, minorities), and is more common in Latin America.20 In addition, it has been noted that there can be other differences between right-wing and leftwing populism, with left-wing populists championing ‘the people’ against an elite or a ...
... demands that politics be opened up to stigmatised groups (the poor, minorities), and is more common in Latin America.20 In addition, it has been noted that there can be other differences between right-wing and leftwing populism, with left-wing populists championing ‘the people’ against an elite or a ...
The Civic Personality: Personality and Democratic Citizenship
... Fourcade-Gourinchas, 2001). In some countries citizens trust each other more and participate more in civic life than in others, which indicates the importance of the national context in forming democratic virtues of citizens. Similarly, within a given country, indicators of democratic citizenship va ...
... Fourcade-Gourinchas, 2001). In some countries citizens trust each other more and participate more in civic life than in others, which indicates the importance of the national context in forming democratic virtues of citizens. Similarly, within a given country, indicators of democratic citizenship va ...
Is Public Opinion Stable? Resolving the Micro
... rather than ineptitude (for discussion, see Druckman 2001, Sniderman and Theriault 2004). Regardless, for us the most important point is that on many issues, when studied at the microlevel, individuals’ political attitudes appear unstable.3 Such dynamics led Best and McDermott (2007) to conclude tha ...
... rather than ineptitude (for discussion, see Druckman 2001, Sniderman and Theriault 2004). Regardless, for us the most important point is that on many issues, when studied at the microlevel, individuals’ political attitudes appear unstable.3 Such dynamics led Best and McDermott (2007) to conclude tha ...
Group Rhetoric and Public Opinion
... al. 1960; Converse 1964; Conover & Feldman 1984; Conover 1988). For example, Converse (1964) found that when Americans were asked to evaluate political parties and candidates, they typically named benefits and deprivations that parties had visited upon social groups. Likewise, more than a quarter of ...
... al. 1960; Converse 1964; Conover & Feldman 1984; Conover 1988). For example, Converse (1964) found that when Americans were asked to evaluate political parties and candidates, they typically named benefits and deprivations that parties had visited upon social groups. Likewise, more than a quarter of ...
The Politics of Inclusive Agreements: towards a Critical Discourse
... an ongoing process and all laws are, in principle, revisable. New problems may require new laws and any current law could be deemed to be inappropriate under new historical circumstances. But there are other reasons we might have for rethinking legislation in a public discourse. We have grounds for ...
... an ongoing process and all laws are, in principle, revisable. New problems may require new laws and any current law could be deemed to be inappropriate under new historical circumstances. But there are other reasons we might have for rethinking legislation in a public discourse. We have grounds for ...