Democracy, Participation, and Life Satisfaction*

Participation, Markets and Democracy by Deepak Lal*

This paper examines the role of popular participation, in particular through NGOs, in both promoting democracy (seen as essential for better governance) and the maintenance of a market economy. Making a crucial distinction between the forms and characteristics of good government, it finds no empirical relationship between the form of government and successful development. It argues that while d...

Relationship Between Family Participation in Sport-recreation aActivities with mMarital and Life Satisfaction

Aims: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between family participation in sport-recreation activities with marital satisfaction and life satisfaction. Methods & materials: The research method was a survey correlation. The statistical population included all families living in Mashhad. Using the cluster sampling method, the researcher referred to selected parks of Mashhad and distr...

Satisfaction with democracy and the environment

Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe: A Panel Analysis We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government...

Electoral Institutions and Satisfaction With Democracy

Student Participation in School Life: The “Student Voice” and Mitigated Democracy

Student participation in school life may be considered from the points of view of diverse theoretical frameworks that question different educational aspects related to such social involvement. Issues such as the construction of a democratic school, education for citizenship, active learning and student-centred education may be addressed when the object of one’s study focuses on student particip...