Democracy

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1. Optimising the decision threshold in a weighted voting system: the case of the IMF’s Board of Governors

   • Dóra Gréta Petróczy

   in Economics of Governance

   Article Open access 08 May 2026

   

2. Impact of democracy on economic, human, and societal development

   • Staffan I Lindberg
   • Martin Lundstedt
   • Yuko Sato

   in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

   Article Open access 07 May 2026

   

3. Climate change policy preferences and foreign state behavior – survey experimental evidence on reciprocal defection

   • Lukas Rudolph

   in Climatic Change

   Article Open access 06 May 2026

   

4. State capacity and growth regimes

   • Patrick A. Imam
   • Jonathan R. W. Temple

   in Empirical Economics

   Article 04 May 2026

   

5. Elections and (mis)reporting of COVID-19 mortality: a quasi-natural experiment

   • Parrendah Adwoa Kpeli
   • Günther G. Schulze
   • Nikita Zakharov

   in Economics of Governance

   Article Open access 01 May 2026

   

6. Giving voice to judges: perceptions of judicial independence

   • Frans van Dijk
   • Milda Treige

   in ERA Forum

   Article Open access 30 April 2026

   

7. “People have the Power”: An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Civil Society Participation on Human Development

   • Giuseppe Terzo
   • Umberto Di Maggio
   • Giuseppe Notarstefano

   in Italian Economic Journal

   Article 28 April 2026

   

8. Agenda manipulation under doctrinal paradox

   • Masaki Miyashita

   in Social Choice and Welfare

   Article Open access 28 April 2026

   

9. Political openness and the gender gaps in political participation among Africans

   • Eugene Emeka Dim

   in Acta Politica

   Article 25 April 2026

   

10. Digital Legitimation and Compensation: An Experimental Study on AI-Assisted Decision-Making and Popular Legitimacy in China

    • Jingxian Zhang
    • Jiongyi Cao
    • Tianguang Meng

    in Journal of Chinese Political Science

    Article 25 April 2026

    

11. Comparing opposition power across regime types: the case of Africa

    • Danny Schindler

    in Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

    Article 23 April 2026

    

12. The democratic institutions of the Roman Republic

    • John G. Matsusaka

    in Constitutional Political Economy

    Article Open access 22 April 2026

    

13. AI-Enhanced Deliberative Democracy and the Future of the Collective Will

    • Manon Revel
    • Théophile Pénigaud

    in Philosophy & Technology

    Article 22 April 2026

    

14. A grand strategy narrative of democratic hope: legitimizing the Biden administration’s democracy versus autocracy framework

    • Sara Wissén

    in International Politics

    Article Open access 21 April 2026

15. An analysis of the Barcelona Town Council 2023–2027 using the proportional partitional Shapley value

    • Francesc Carreras
    • Antonio Magaña

    in TOP

    Article Open access 20 April 2026

    

16. The ambiguous consensus behind climate assemblies: a Belgian case

    • Elisa Minsart

    in Climatic Change

    Article 20 April 2026

17. Strategyproof randomized social choice for restricted sets of utility functions

    • Patrick Lederer

    in Social Choice and Welfare

    Article Open access 17 April 2026

    

18. Balancing efficiency and fairness in large-scale group decision-making: a two-stage consensus-reaching process with minimum adjustment-maximum fairness model

    • Jie Guo
    • Zilong Wang
    • Zhiwen Zhang

    in Annals of Operations Research

    Article 13 April 2026

    

19. The 1991 Colombian Constitution and the Change of the Political System

    • Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas

    in International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique

    Article 11 April 2026

20. Seat allocation methods and parliamentary outcomes : a comparative study of Senegal and Burkina Faso

    • Kadigueta Ouedraogo
    • El Hadji Abdul Aziz Ndiaye

    in Constitutional Political Economy

    Article 10 April 2026

    

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