Efficiency and democracy are two crucial concepts during the provision of local goods and services in many developed and developing local government systems. Policy makers, quite often, appear to make delicate choices between these two rival elements. Turkey is no exception as there is always scarcity of financial sources and huge service expectations in the...
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The decentralization of the subnational government level has been one of the main debates in Chile in the past twenty years. Nevertheless, only modest progress has been achieved in this direction, and Chile still remains among the most centralized countries in the OECD. This paper explores different alternatives for fiscal decentralization in municipalities, particularly with...
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Studies concerning the dynamics of party systems between parliamentary elections are usually based on legislative party switching analyses. This issue was considered and proved in some Western European case studies as well as in some comparative analyses dedicated to the parliaments in the consolidated democracies. But the personal structures of the parliaments in the East-Central...
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Voter representation based on votes cast and the degree of concentration of the party system are two variables correlated with the design of the electoral system. In general, there is an inverse relationship between proportionality and concentration: when the proportionality of the electoral system increases, the concentration of the party system decreases and vice versa....
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In this article, Oana Lup (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu) uses survey data collected in a comparative, cross-country study (Comparative National Election Project) to analyze the relationships between people’s embeddedness in either strong or weak social networks and their likelihood to participate in elections in countries with different length of democratic experiences. The results indicate...
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