Public Justice Private Dispute Resolution and Democracy

Making Deliberative Democracy Practical: Public Consultation and Dispute Resolution

Deliberative democracy is a form of alternative dispute resolution. Consulting the public in a thoughtful and representative way can lead to consequential public policy outcomes that might otherwise have been difficult to achieve. However, some recent literature appears to treat deliberative democracy and alternative dispute resolution as rivals.! While there are differences in emphasis and in ...

Democracy, redistributive taxation and the private provision of public goods

Article history: Received 16 October 2009 Received in revised form 6 June 2010 Accepted 11 June 2010 Available online 19 June 2010 The paper studies in a simple, Downsian model of political competition the private provision of public goods embedded in a system of democracy and redistributive taxation. Results show that the positive effect of inequality on production of public goods, to which Ol...

Liberalism versus Democracy? Schooling Private Citizens in the Public Square

Procedural Justice and the Rule of Law: Fostering Legitimacy in Alternative Dispute Resolution

JUSTICE AND THE POOR. FORMAL vs. INFORMAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISMS: A GOVERNANCE-BASED APPROACH by

Democracy functions as a system with formal and informal institutional interrelated mechanisms serving the purpose of translating social preferences into public policies. Enhancing the effectiveness of society’s dispute resolution mechanisms is also a way to address social preferences through public policies within the judicial domain.1 Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the institutions...