Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development This paper studies the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions in form of a social contract that ensures a state of law and the absence of societal conflict are not assumed exogenously under certain political system...

Neighborhood-representing organizations (NROs) are generally viewed as the most authentic form of citizen participation and local democracy. In this article, I question how democratic NROs actually are, both on the local level (participatory democracy) and in the external arena (representative democracy). I present a new conceptual model of the components of democracy in neighborhood organizati...

We investigate judgment aggregation by assuming that some formulas of the agenda are singled out as premisses, and the Independence condition (formula-wise aggregation) holds for them, though perhaps not for others. Whether premiss-based aggregation thus de…ned is non-degenerate depends on how premisses are logically connected, both among themselves and with other formulas. We identify necessar...

We study the incentives to expropriate foreign capital under democracy and oligarchy. We model a two-sector small open economy where foreign investment triggers Stolper-Samuelson effects through reducing exporting costs. We show how incentives to expropriate depend on the distributional effects of the investment and on how these affect the interests of the group in power. How investment affects...

In the present study, purpose was to examine Adnan Menderes from perspective of Elite Theory. For this purpose, Historical Research, Content Analysis, and Leader Analysis Methods were employed in study. After information provided about elite Theory life examined terms At end it concluded that Menderes, who a socio-economic political elite, banned power “by force” line with Pareto’s “Elite Rotat...

The article aims to determine socio-economic causes of the emergence an oligarchy and its functions in Ukrainian economy context postmodernism. essence postmodernism is worldview-philosophical, economic political systems collapse. This a kind opposition modernism. As for during postmodernism, namely formation, changes relate view social relations human activity. So, oligarchic Ukraine trying so...

The purpose of the article is to determine legitimacy public authorities under martial law in Ukraine. oscillation policy Ukraine between private interests representatives oligarchic groups and good noted. need direct toward realization was Methodology. study based on provisions theory choice concerning two levels interaction process political exchange – constitutional institutional. dependence...