Add to ORKGRecent contributions suggest that introducing political contracts could make liberal democracy more efficient without altering its fundamental values. Such contracts might foster the public 's trust in politics. In this article, we review and structure the current state of affairs on Contractual Democracy. We discuss four archetypes of political contracts and ways of implementing them. We outline the certification and control procedures for political contracts, and address the major concerns arising with regard to Contractual Democrac
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This thesis explores the limits to purposive change in liberal democracies. Its aim is to provide ne...
The democratic deficit in the so-called bargaining democracy provides the motivation for constitutio...
We propose to supplement the democratic election mechanism by threshold contracts. A threshold contr...
This article proposes that the social contract is a trust-agreement of power because political organ...
In this paper we introduce vote-share contracts. Such contracts contain a vote-share threshold that ...
Although they would yield social benefit, many political projects are not implemented in democracy. ...
This article discusses the normative relationship between contract law and democracy. In particular,...
In this paper, I will use methods associated primarily with applied ethics and economic theory to pr...
When politicians have lower discount factors than voters, democratic elections cannot sufficiently m...
Politicians may pander to public opinion and may renounce undertaking beneficial long-term projects....
Democratic contractarianism aspires to unite two previously unconnected strands in political philoso...
This article advances a partially epistemic justification of democratic authority by defending what ...
Capitalist democracies are paradoxical: while their political system is premised on equality, their ...
A critical issue of a constitutional democracy is to determine an optimal limitation of citizens’ po...
Contains fulltext : 155429.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)This article ...
This thesis explores the limits to purposive change in liberal democracies. Its aim is to provide ne...
The democratic deficit in the so-called bargaining democracy provides the motivation for constitutio...
We propose to supplement the democratic election mechanism by threshold contracts. A threshold contr...
This article proposes that the social contract is a trust-agreement of power because political organ...
In this paper we introduce vote-share contracts. Such contracts contain a vote-share threshold that ...
Although they would yield social benefit, many political projects are not implemented in democracy. ...
This article discusses the normative relationship between contract law and democracy. In particular,...
In this paper, I will use methods associated primarily with applied ethics and economic theory to pr...
When politicians have lower discount factors than voters, democratic elections cannot sufficiently m...
Politicians may pander to public opinion and may renounce undertaking beneficial long-term projects....
Democratic contractarianism aspires to unite two previously unconnected strands in political philoso...
This article advances a partially epistemic justification of democratic authority by defending what ...
Capitalist democracies are paradoxical: while their political system is premised on equality, their ...
A critical issue of a constitutional democracy is to determine an optimal limitation of citizens’ po...
Contains fulltext : 155429.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)This article ...
This thesis explores the limits to purposive change in liberal democracies. Its aim is to provide ne...
The democratic deficit in the so-called bargaining democracy provides the motivation for constitutio...