Browsing by Subject "Demokratie"

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Participative political institutions and city development 800-1800
(2015) Wahl, Fabian
This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutions as well as of the individual PPIs is tested empirically. When pooled over all periods and observations, there seems to be a significant positive overall effect of PPIs in the German-speaking area but not in the Low Countries. The study founds considerable spatial and temporal heterogeneity in the effect of PPIs. Furthermore, the effect of different types of PPIs differs substantially and in general seems to be short-lived. That is, the results show that the positive initial effect of some PPIs declined the longer they existed and over time.
Political implications of economic inequality : a literature survey
(2019) Geiger, Niels; Baric, Laura-Kristin
This survey documents the different arguments discussed in the academic literature on whether and how economic inequality and the emergence and stability of democratic political systems are connected. While early research in this domain has often focused on new and emerging democracies, this paper also provides an overview of the more recent literature in economics and neighboring fields that discusses democratization as well as established democracies’ stability and other institutional traits. In doing so, the survey contains a critical review of both theoretical and empirical contributions on the topic. The different arguments are systematically evaluated and their core hypotheses are distilled in order to document the main lines of argumentation prevalent in the literature. Together with a summary of the theoretical arguments, the main findings of related empirical research are also documented and shortly discussed. Whereas taken together, research so far generally does not suggest any conclusive results concerning economic inequality and the emergence of democracies, the survey indicates that the stability and institutional quality of established democracies can be negatively affected by economic inequality, and it outlines the conditions for this to occur. However, additional research especially on some of the more tentative hypotheses is required to allow for a more profound understanding of the different channels and relationships. Therefore, points of departure for further research, e. g. on how to operationalize specific theoretical constructs of interest and thereby on how to get a better understanding of the relations, are also suggested.
Politische Kommunikation in der modernen Demokratie; eine Bestandsaufnahme
(2006) Pfetsch, Barbara; Mayerhöffer, Eva
Der Text hat das Ziel, Fragestellungen und Befunde über die Entwicklung der politischen Kommunikation von Regierungen, Parteien und Verbänden sowie von Sozialen Bewegungen vorzustellen und deren Implikationen für moderne Demokratien zu diskutieren. Ausgangspunkt ist die Notwendigkeit von Kommunikation in politischen Prozessen und ein Bedeutungszuwachs der politischen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, die im Lichte der verschiedenen Demokratietheorien zu unterschiedlichen Bewertungen führen. In einem ersten Teil werden die Handlungskalküle verschiedener Akteure und deren Strategien und Techniken, sich öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit zu verschaffen, vorgestellt. Daran schließt sich die Diskussion verschiedener Thesen über die Modernisierung der Kommunikation und deren Rückwirkungen auf Politiker und ihr Handeln an. Im letzten Teil wird die Perspektive erweitert und es werden international vergleichende Ansätze und Befunde über die Primärkommunikation politischer Akteure diskutiert.