Altman, David. Direct Democracy Worldwide.
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Direct Democracy Works
I n November 2004, in addition to electing a president and other representatives, voters nationwide acted as legislators themselves, weighing in on 162 statewide ballot propositions. Voters in 11 states amended their constitutions to ban gay marriage. Voters in California approved a $3 billion bond issue for stem cell research and repealed a state law requiring businesses to provide health insu...
متن کاملDirect Democracy in Croatia
Author discusses forms of direct democracy envisaged by the Croatian Constitution of 1990 which defined Croatia as semi-presidential republic, before constitutional ammendment of 1997. Article describes normative regulation of referenda and speculates about reasons for their absence. One of the main reasons seems to be specific institutional framework and political consensus existing among the ...
متن کاملReview essay: politics, power, and universal health care by Stuart Altman and David Schachtman
In public discourse regarding health policy in Israel, one often hears that “we are on the road to America”. The concern underlying this cry is that the public–private mix in Israel, especially in terms of finance, is slowly wending its way towards the U.S. situation in which more than half of the national health expenditure comes from private sources. This is, of course, a somewhat skewed cont...
متن کاملThe Dilemma of Direct Democracy
The Dilemma of Direct Democracy CRAIG M. BURNETT, ELIZABETH GARRETT & MATHEW D. McCUBBINS The dilemma of direct democracy is that voters may not always be able to make welfareimproving decisions. Lupia’s seminal work has led us to believe that voters can substitute voting cues for substantive policy knowledge. Lupia, however, emphasized that cues were valuable under certain conditions and not o...
متن کاملDirect Democracy and Tiebout Exit
This paper examines the impact that direct democracy (political participation) has on the location choice of citizens. Because location is defined in terms of private and public amenities, the citizen’s decision involves a choice of a mixed bundle of goods. Since public amenities are the outcome of a collective rather than private action and is influenced by the political setting, this choice o...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Politische Vierteljahresschrift
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0032-3470
DOI: 10.5771/0032-3470-2014-3-573