Рассматривается подход голландского философа Ф.Р. Анкерсмита к категории политической репрезентации, которая в соответствии с предложенной им концепцией эстетической политики составляет основу представительной демократии. Перенося свою теорию репрезентации из истории сферу политики, исследователь тем самым подчеркивает их связь. В рамках объяснения миметического и эстетического подхода Анкерсми...

PBE Type i: Neither default nor political crisis If V ≤ χL, the costs of default are always larger than the costs of servicing the debt even for the benevolent government. Then in equilibrium, the government proposes to service the debt, which is accepted by the representative agent. Hence the debt is repaid and political crisis is avoided. Neither the benevolent government nor the self interes...

After a brief description of the electoral setup, we (i) outline the use of a simulated annealing algorithm, designed to find a good design for sample surveys, which is based on the identification of representative electoral sections, (ii) describe the methods used to analyze the data obtained from sample surveys on politically relevant topics, (iii) outline the proceedings of election day —det...

Women’s political representation has been for decades ahead of women’s rights movement. However, women presence in politics is not only limited to women political participation but their position in party politics as well. This paper aims to analyze the role of parties in empowering women at the UK parliament and tries to contribute towards the existing literature through presenting an interdis...

This paper proposes a model of two-party representative democracy on a singledimensional political space, in which voters choose their parties in order to influence the parties’ choices of representative. After two candidates are selected as the median of each party’s support group, Nature determines the candidates’ competence levels. Based on the candidates’ political positions and competence ...

Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...

Web sites of Slovenian political parties do not fully exploit the Internet’s potential for interactive and deliberative communication on political issues with citizens, because they favour a competitive-elitist perception of democracy. As result, political party’s web sites are mainly used for political mobilization, agitation in persuasion. Supporting this model of democracy via web pages enab...

This 24-nation European–US study (1999–2000) of the democratic political values, attitudes, and behavior of adolescents uncovers a generally high level of self-predicted future political participation as adults. Four of five14-year-olds regard themselves as future voters, and 61% predict involvement in protest activities. Moreover, law breaking as an act of protest is almost as attractive in th...