Historical evidence seems to be that there were very few successful revolts in spite of thousands of years of people living in near-Malthusian conditions.
The model suggests that in multi-layer democracy the layer considered by voters to have the most influence will counts and spill to lower and higher layers. I predict that in Europe swings in subnational and European Parliament elections both largely depend on who’s in power nationally, not on candidates’ platforms specific to those layers. This seems to be the case. I also predict that swings in American subnational elections will follow national swings too.
According to the model well-being is primarily economical, difficult to falsify, and people don’t care about ideology much. In countries where they would, selection for better elites would be weaker.
There’s no strict line between dictatorship and single party regime—it depends on to what degree elites that are setting the policy can lose based on their economic performance. In some single party regimes dissatisfaction by party members could remove and replace the leaders, in others party members other than leadership don’t have much power.
Historical evidence seems to be that there were very few successful revolts in spite of thousands of years of people living in near-Malthusian conditions.
The model suggests that in multi-layer democracy the layer considered by voters to have the most influence will counts and spill to lower and higher layers. I predict that in Europe swings in subnational and European Parliament elections both largely depend on who’s in power nationally, not on candidates’ platforms specific to those layers. This seems to be the case. I also predict that swings in American subnational elections will follow national swings too.
According to the model well-being is primarily economical, difficult to falsify, and people don’t care about ideology much. In countries where they would, selection for better elites would be weaker.
There’s no strict line between dictatorship and single party regime—it depends on to what degree elites that are setting the policy can lose based on their economic performance. In some single party regimes dissatisfaction by party members could remove and replace the leaders, in others party members other than leadership don’t have much power.