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THE INNOVATIVE FORMS OF PARTICIPATION: CASE OF SLOVAK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
One of the long-term interests of political scientists is researching the scope of civic and political participation in public affairs. The current decrease in civic activism is related to the crisis of representative democracy which reflects a growing distrust of politicians and political institutions. Innovative forms of participation serve as tools to mitigate this crisis and support civic engagement. The result of a comparative analysis reveals that the online activism of politicians significantly impacted political awareness during the Slovak parliamentary election in 2020 and 2023. In addition to traditional media, online campaigns had a substantial mobilizing influence on voter turnout, particularly in 2023. However, a negative aspect of citizens' online participation is slacktivism which refers to participation that lacks a real impact on social change.
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Could the Internet be a safety-net for democracy in crisis?
Democratic politics does not meet the expectations of citizens who have gradually become more critical towards representative politics and the political elite that represent them. From these well-known considerations and social evaluation spread among the citizenry, this paper focuses on political representation and the concept of citizenship in the age of the Internet. After discussing the positive and negative aspects of digital disintermediation (and hence neo-intermediation ), this study concentrates on the potentialities of the role of the Internet, with its ambiguities, and monitoring of citizens' engagement as a possible safety-net for representative democracies in crisis worldwide.
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Lessons from the Criticality of the Spanish High Capacity Road Network on Direct, Representative Democracies and Technocracies
This paper aims to shed some light on an issue that has not been analyzed enough in previous studies on complex transportation networks. The financial crisis and disrupting events like the COVID-19 pandemic episode are affecting how governments make crucial decisions regarding policymaking paying more attention to experts’ opinions. The impacts of disruptive events that could affect each road section will be analyzed using the criticality of the high capacity road network in Spain under different policymaking scenarios, such as direct democracy based on pure provincial decentralization (federal or cantonal vision), representative democracy in which decisions are taken by the National Parliament, and the governance based on technocracy stimulated by ‘what matters is what works’ (Southern
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(4), 264-271, 2001) using an Evidence-Based Policy Making (EBPM) case study based on a Data Envelopment Analysis applied to four accessibility indicators. We will complement our analysis with the different results obtained by the different national parties that were represented in the past election (November, 2019): PSOE, PP, VOX, Unidas Podemos, Ezquerra Republicana de Catalunya, Ciudadanos, Junts per Catalunya, Partido Nacionalista Vasco and Euskal Herria Bildu, exploring in-depth the obtained differences between the technocrat solution and the direct and representative democracy results. Important insights and lessons for the future will be obtained from the different party visions observed among the regionalist (nationalist) and the state-wide parties. The spillover effects created by the networks are so important that the room for federalist solutions might be very limited.
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Democracy and the limits of self-government
\"The book analyzes the sources of widespread dissatisfaction with democracies around the world and identifies directions for feasible reforms\"--Provided by publisher.
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Mixed Member Proportional meets Alternative Vote: Rethinking American Politics
Dieser Beitrag arbeitet mit der Prämisse einer zweigeteilten Krise der repräsentativen Demokratie in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Als Antwort auf diese zweigeteilte Krise wird für die Verschmelzung der beiden Wahlsysteme Alternative Vote (AV) und Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) plädiert. Es wird argumentiert, dass die daraus resultierende Notwendigkeit legislative und elektoraié Koalitionen zu bilden, sowie die günstigeren Bedingungen dafür, die Kernprobleme dieser Krise angehen können. Bei näherer Betrachtung dieses Arguments wird jedoch deutlich, dass nur einige der dafür erforderlichen Annahmen durch bestehende empirische Forschung gestützt werden, während andere Neuland betreten. Diese Forschungslücken zeigen vielversprechende Perspektiven für künftige Forschung auf.
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Israel’s Innovative Young Adults Lists
Abstract Scholars have pointed to the alarming decline in the participation of young people in the institutional political activities underlying representative democracy, such as voting, joining political parties, or running for office. Solutions previously proposed have dealt with participatory democracy rather than representative democracy. Based on in-depth interviews, this article shows that, since 1998, the involvement of Young Adults Lists (YALs) in Israel's local elections have successfully and consistently engaged young adults as a descriptive constituency in local representative democracy. The YALs’ extraordinary electoral success derives from their ability to construct and carry out an innovative campaign strategy tailored to the preferences of young adults. This strategy has compensated for the YALs’ minimal financial resources and their lack of political experience and significant ties to national parties or similar organizations.
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