Publication details
Význam nástrojů přímé demokracie pro kvalitu politické konkurence na národní i lokální úrovni.
| Title in English | The importance of direct democracy tools for quality of political competition on the national as well as local level |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Acta oeconomica Pragensia |
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| Field | Economy |
| Keywords | Economic policy; direct democracy; political-business cycle; rent seeking behaviour; political competition |
| Description | The paper shows the political business cycles and rent seeking as the results of the forms of imperfect political competition. There is argued in the paper that referenda and initiatives are the means to stabilize the political business cycles and to break the politicians' coalition against the voters by destroying their monopoly on agenda-setting and decision making and by shrinking informational advantage of the "classe politique! and well organized interest groups. Special attention is devoted to the mentioned effects on the quality of political competition on municipal level. |
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