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  1. Non-majoritarian institutions - a menace to constitutional democracy?
    Author: Voigt, Stefan
    Published: February 2023
    Publisher:  Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft, [Hamburg]

    Over the last couple of decades, non-majoritarian institutions (NMIs) have been introduced in many countries. Of late, they have been criticized as promoting technocracy to the detriment of democracy. A number of political scientists even argue that... more

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    Over the last couple of decades, non-majoritarian institutions (NMIs) have been introduced in many countries. Of late, they have been criticized as promoting technocracy to the detriment of democracy. A number of political scientists even argue that they would strengthen populists and be, hence, one reason for democratic backsliding. This paper does three things: It firstly briefly discusses the empirical evidence for the claim that NMIs have strengthened populists. It secondly argues that not all NMIs are born equal and therefore proposes a taxonomy enabling us to distinguish different types. And it finally discusses the question how the delegation of policy-making competence to experts can be legitimized relying on a specific version of social contract theory. To develop the argument, the interdependence cost calculus developed by Buchanan and Tullock (1962) is modified by explicitly including the respective decision-making procedure, distinguishing between direct democracy, representative democracy, and expert decision-making.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Series: Institute of Law and Economics working paper series ; no. 68 (2023)
    Subjects: Nonmajoritarian institutions; constitutional democracy; technocracy; independent regulatory agencies; populism; social contract theory
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 25 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. What do politicians think of technocratic institutions? Experimental Evidence on the European Central Bank
    Author: Ferrara, Federico M.; Masciandaro, Donato; Moschella, Manuela; Romelli, Davide
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  SSRN, [S.l.]

    Technocracy has come to be increasingly regarded as a threat to representative democracy. Significant attention has thus been recently devoted to exploring public preferences towards technocratic institutions. Elected policymakers’ attitudes have... more

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    Technocracy has come to be increasingly regarded as a threat to representative democracy. Significant attention has thus been recently devoted to exploring public preferences towards technocratic institutions. Elected policymakers’ attitudes have instead not been investigated as systematically. This paper fills this gap by examining politicians’ views on central banks. Based on an original elite survey of the Members of the European Parliament, we gauge elected policymakers’ attitudes towards the mandate and policy conduct of the European Central Bank. Our findings show that the political orientation of politicians largely drives attitudes towards the ECB’s institutional mandate. Interestingly, the findings from two experiments embedded in the survey also show that the attitudes of MEPs are not as static as ideological orientations would lead us to expect. The information set to which politicians are exposed significantly shapes their views on both the ECB’s mandate and its policy conduct, but less on ECB independence

     
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    Series: BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Research Paper ; No. 201
    Subjects: accountability; central banks; ECB; independence; political attitudes; technocracy; trust
    Other subjects: Array
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (38 p)
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    Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 16, 2023 erstellt
  3. Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
    Author: Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; Martínez, Luis R.; Muñoz, Pablo; Prem, Mounu
    Published: 13 May 2024
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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    Series: Array ; DP19065
    Subjects: dictatorship; college; technocracy; austerity; inequality
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 74 Seiten), Illustrationen