Democratic participation has increasingly become a natural resource management policy approach for governments around the world. Yet, its effective application across stakeholder groups remains a challenge. With original survey data from Mexico, a country with extensive common property forestland, we assess the effect of incorporating both local representation and outside technical expertise on...

It is widely thought that oil and democracy do not mix. Rentier states, it is argued, need not tax their citizens, thus breaking a crucial link between citizens and their governments, and dimming the prospects for democracy. In this paper I examine the link between rentierism and democracy using a cross-regional dataset. I pay particular attention to the possibility that there are both positive...

Abstract: Throughout Pakistan’s 58 year history two forms of government, namely, military and democratic rule have been imposed on the country. Although the economic and social performance of the two types of government has been documented extensively in terms of qualitative research methodology, no comprehensive quantitative model utilizing inferential statistical techniques to assess their pe...

The changing circumstances in which parties compete in contemporary democracies, coupled with the changing circumstances in which governments now govern, have led to a widening of the traditional gap between representative and responsible government. Although it is generally seen as desirable that parties in government are both representative and responsible, these two characteristics are now b...

Following the introduction of democratic institutions in the countries of central and eastern Europe, the question of the consolidation of these newly implemented democracies arises. One of the most important conditions for consolidation is support for democracy from the community of citizens in the respective countries. In the theoretical frame of reference of this analysis, it is postulated t...

The impact of globalization on democratic governance is vigorously contested. This debate has largely failed to address the impact of integration on the signature institution of representative democracies|competitive elections. In this paper, I argue that globalization makes the voter's fundamental problem of selecting a desirable representative easier by increasing the revelation of informatio...

Recent developments in South Asian countries, especially the re-emergence of democratic governments, new growth momentum despite the global economic downturn and greater openness, warrant a fresh look at the region’s prospects for economic integration. On the basis of a thorough review of the literature on potential and prospects of regional integration in South Asia and after examining the tre...

E-government is a way for governments to use new technologies such as the Internet to provide citizens with more convenient access to government information and services, to improve the quality of services, and to provide greater opportunities for citizens to participate in democratic institutions and processes. This research investigates factors impacting e-government development. Based on the...

This paper studies the stability of the coalition government formed in 1993 in Japan, called the Hosokawa government, by using a dynamic coalition formation model presented in Fukuda and Muto [2]. Ono and Muto [6] studied the stability of the same coalition government by applying the static coalition formation model of Hart and Kurz [4], which employed Owen’s [7] coalition value to measure part...

Weighting in life cycle assessment (LCA) is a controversial subject due to its dependence upon value judgements. One of the issues that has to be dealt with is whose values that shall be reflected. In a democratic society, a fair candidate to put forward would be the government. In environmental economics taxes and fees set up by governments to protect natural resources and the environment are ...