Does democracy need sovereignty?

Does a dendritic democracy need a ruler?

In hippocampal CA1 cells, distance-dependent synaptic scaling (Nat. Neurosci. 3 (2000) 895, J. Neurosci. 21 (2001) 9151) helps maintain a “dendritic democracy” (Curr. Biol. 11 (2001) R10) where distal and proximal synapses on average contribute equally to the cell’s 7ring. A “dendritic ruler”, for example a concentration gradient, might be necessary for synaptic scaling. Alternatively, synapses...

Does democracy assistance promote democracy?

1 Democracy assistance may contribute to democratisation in a number of ways. It can channel support for elections, it can strengthen legislatures and judiciaries by creating checks and balances on the executive and other bodies, and it can promote democratic participation by strengthening civil society organisations, among others. Against a background of growing concern for democracy worldwide...

Does Consumer Irrationality Trump Consumer Sovereignty?

Does Democracy Cause Peace?

The idea that democratic states have not fought and are not likely to fight interstate wars against each other runs counter to the realist and neorealist theoretical traditions that have dominated the field of international politics. Since the mid-1970s, the generation of new data and the development of superior analytical techniques have enabled evaluators of the idea to generate impressive em...

Does Democracy Foster Trust?

Does Democracy Foster Trust? The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals’ attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique natural experiment that allows us to conduct such a study. Using data f...