Abstract Beyond the observation of official positions and incorporating ‘Latent Power Structure’ (LPS), this article offers a broadened view organization democratic governments. We define LPS as set former officials, parliamentary party members, business directors who are closely related to government since they have recruited one or more them for certain in past. Applied Social Network Analysi...

Social egalitarians are clear that the ideal of social equality applies both to private and public relationships—friendships marriages as well political economic associations. Most support democratic procedures institutions a way counteracting subordinating nature state power. On this view, egalitarianism can be compatible with power needn’t anarchists. In contrast, I argue egalitarians' tolera...

Abstract Can revenue sharing of resource rents be a source distributive conflict? cohesive institutions avoid such conflicts? We exploit exogenous variation in local government revenues and new data on democratic Nigeria to study these questions. find strong link between conflict. Conflicts are highly organized concentrated districts time-periods with unelected governments. Once governments ele...

An essential task of democratic societies is to establish a proper balance between freedom and order. From this general principle of democratic governments, we examine the regulation of occupations by the state. The issue of regulation involves the role of government in reconciling the special interests of the members of the occupation with the general concerns of the public. These special inte...

This article addresses the question of whether, or under what conditions, democratic institutions contribute to ‘developmental governance’ in sub-Saharan Africa, in forms such as coherent policy formulation, effective public administration, and limited corruption. While few dispute the desirability for Africa of democracy and good governance in theory, many remain sceptical about whether the tw...

This paper frames a discussion of Maharishi’s Absolute Theory of Government in the context of the current divisive nature of government, showing that the adversarial tendencies of any style of government have only perpetuated problems in the lives of the citizens of all nations. The author examines various interventions, such as economic policy, which, if fully developed, are thought to provide...

Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the USSR’s successor states have not made the smooth transition to liberal democracy that many in Europe and the United States had once expected. The Baltic states and most eastern European countries have transitioned to the status of “sustainable democracies,” but the rest of the Soviet Union’s successor states sit more along a continuum of auto...

Digital systems have simplified the management, accounting, transfer, and dissemination of all types of information. However, they have not yet been often successfully applied to a very difficult and rewarding task of a democratic administration: facilitating the acquisition, evaluation and refinement of the ideas and opinions of large bodies of constituents. Consequently, administrative ideas ...

Democracy used to be a word that international legal commentators preferred to avoid. At least by the second half of the present century, this was not because too few governments identified themselves as democratic. It was rather because too many did so. The world's most repressive regimes joined their more representative counterparts in claiming a title that had become synonymous with praisewo...

This paper looks at the introduction of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) to EU policymaking. This new mode of governance has been developed over the last decade and has received considerable attention in the literature. However, much of this writing fails to put the OMC into the broader context of EMU; in contrast, this paper links the Amsterdam employment title to the prior Maastricht dec...