Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy; Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do not Produce Responsive Government.

Does Democracy Produce Quality of Government?

Legalising norms of democracy in the Americas

Why have states legalised international norms promoting domestic democracy in some regions of the world? This issue poses a difficult puzzle because standard assumptions about state preferences for sovereignty make the creation of strong, binding international rules on democracy unlikely. We identify four possible answers: the interests of powerful states, common government interests in domesti...

Brazilian elections: voting for a scaling democracy

The proportional elections held in Brazil in 1998 and 2002 display identical statistical signatures. In particular, the distribution of votes among candidates includes a power-law regime. We suggest that the rationale behind this robust scaling invariance is a multiplicative process in which the voter’s choice for a candidate is governed by a product of probabilities. c © 2002 Elsevier Science ...

New Questions for E-Government: Efficiency but not (yet?) Democracy

E-government’s rise to prominence in the early 1990s was met with great enthusiasm amidst the promise that information communication technologies (ICTs) might fulfill the demands and expectations for improved democratic governance. Since then, significant progress has been made in terms of information provision and delivery of public services; yet, dialogue, a core dimension of democratic gover...

Why Government Grows (and Grows) in a Democracy