the ninth constitution of afghanistan (1382 /2003) was ratified according to the bone agreement and with a democratic orientation. this paper compares the principles of this constitution with principles of two models of liberal democracy. for this purpose, five indexes have been used for our analysis: the view on man, the notion of right, political system, democracy, and the process for the act...

From the first national elections in 2002 and first local suku (village) elections over 2004–05, the East Timorese people have repeatedly and enthusiastically exercised their right to choose their representatives through direct, secret ballot. The commitment of the East Timorese state to democracy has also been demonstrated through formal steps to safeguard fundamental political and civil freed...

Representation is a key concept for parliamentary democracy. It is, however, a broader concept than is commonly believed. Representative democracy has a fourfold meaning. First, representative democracy is a depiction of the people’s will. Secondly, it is a process of deliberation and negotiation. Thirdly, representative democracy is the institutional linking mechanism between political power a...

This article challenges cross-sectional findings that democracy has a negligible effect on growth. We employ a new dataset of political transitions during the Third Wave of Democratisation and examine the within effect of democratisation in countries that abandoned autocracy and consolidated representative institutions. The panel estimates imply that on average democratisations are associated w...

The paper presents the results of the research, focused on Slovenian parliamentary deputies' position on e-democracy with the stress on remote evoting. It examines the difference in the position on e-democracy and e-voting of deputies aligned with the political right and left respectively. Furthermore, it considers deputies' attitude to the initiatives mediated via e-mail and assesses the risks...

We revisit one of the central empirical findings of the pohtical economy literature that higher hicome per capita causes democracy. Existing studies estabUsh a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy, but do not tjqaically control for factors that simultaneously affect both variables. We show that controlling for such factors by including country fixed effects removes the ...

The article proposed intends to analyze the possibility (and conditions) of a media regulation law in a democratic rule of law in the twenty-first century. To do so, will be presented initially the idea of the public sphere (by Jürgen Habermas), showing how it is presented as an interface between the citizen and the state (or the private and public) and how important is it in a deliberative dem...

From its inception, the Internet has been touted as a tool for political change. The term “emergent democracy” has been used to describe the new forms of participation that the Internet will facilitate. However, there has been little discussion about how this behaviour will emerge, how to recognise it when it does, and how to integrate it into current models of democracy. This paper traces the ...

This article describes Electronic Democracy as an emergent statecraft model.Electronic Democracy is analyzed from a theoretical perspective that proposes edemocracy as the new millennium democratic system. In order to achieve thisgoal, an e-government concept was required. It is proposed that ElectronicGovernment is presented as the appropriate environment to originate a newrole...

The paper presents the results of the research, focused on Slovenian parliamentary deputies' position on e-democracy with the stress on remote evoting. It examines the difference in the position on e-democracy and e-voting of deputies aligned with the political right and left respectively. Furthermore, it considers deputies' attitude to the initiatives mediated via e-mail and assesses the risks...