Search results for " Demokratie"
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How representative are referendums? Evidence from 20 years of Swiss referendums
2017
Direct democracy allows citizens to reverse decisions made by legislatures and even initiate new laws which parliaments are unwilling to pass, thereby, as its proponents argue, leading to more representative policies than would have obtained under a purely representative democracy. Yet, turnout in referendums is usually lower than in parliamentary elections and tends to be skewed towards citizens of high socio-economic status. Consequently, critics of direct democracy argue that referendum outcomes may not be representative of the preferences of the population at large. We test this assertion using a compilation of post-referendum surveys encompassing 148 national referendums held in Switze…
Organisierte Kriminalität. Die Mafia: globale Szenarien und internationale Connections
2012
Lo studio dei fenomeni criminali di tipo mafioso rende necessaria una costante attività di confronto, verifica e aggiornamento dei paradigmi di analisi; è normale, del resto, che ogni fenomeno sociale letto ed esaminato entro uno specifico universo di significazione, meriti una nuova attenta ricognizione per verificare se siano cambiate o meno le sue peculiari caratteristiche, quando il contesto di riferimento muta e l’oggetto di studio assume connotazioni differenti. Il saggio analizza in chiave diacronica e comparativa i processi di trasformazione che hanno interessato le principali organizzazioni criminali italiane, proiettando le loro attività all'interno di uno scenario globale. Nel co…
De l’État de droit libéral à l’État de droit social. Critique et transformation de l’État de droit chez Hermann Heller
2019
This article analyzes the genesis and meaning of the concept of a “social rule of law” (sozialer Rechtsstaat) which Heller put forward in the particular context of The Weimar Republic. Heller was at this time one of the jurists who criticized the liberal ideal of law. He instead promoted a social conception that would take socio-economic inequalities into consideration. However, this did not imply eliminating the rule of law; it was rather a question of extending it or elevating it to a higher point – which he called “social democracy” and from 1929, “social rule of law”. In the context of the crisis of democracy, this kind of statement clearly had a political dimension.
Der Mezzogiorno und die Organisierte Kriminalität
2010
Die Mafia hat sich wie ein Krebsgeschwür in Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik ausgebreitet. Die organisierte Kriminalität ist längst nicht mehr nur auf Italien begrenzt. Im Zuge der Globalisierung haben sich die kriminellen Organisationen anpassungsfähig gezeigt, flexible Netzwerke gegründet und transnationale Bündnisse geschlossen, um nunmehr weltweit operieren zu können. Sie gleichen global operierenden Unternehmen und bewegen sich gekonnt in den Grenzbereichen zwischen Legalität und Illegalität. Die Verknüpfungen mit Politik und Wirtschaft sind für den Erfolg und den Fortbestand der Mafia essentiell. Die gezielte In filtration von Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik ist deshalb so ge…