Participation has been increasingly prioritized in environmental policy processes to achieve
inclusiveness in development. The vast literature discusses the pros and cons of …

Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained
economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael …

This paper argues that existing models of urban concentrations are incomplete unless
grounded in the most fundamental aspect of proximity; face-to-face contact. Face-to-face …

What is the effect of an increase in the overall level of human capital on the economy of a
city? Although much is known about the private return to education, much less is known …

This article reviews recent developments in the theory of committee decision‐making. A
committee consists of self‐interested members who make a public decision by aggregating …

What are good voting rules if voting is costly? We analyze this question for the case that an
electorate chooses among two alternatives. In a symmetric private value model of voting we …

These collected papers construct a distinctive view of classical Athens and of Athenian
democracy, a view which takes seriously the evidence of settlement archaeology and of art …

Participatory democracy is a process of collective decision making that combines elements
from both direct and representative democracy: Citizens have the power to decide on policy …

Motivated by the need for more flexible decision-making mechanisms in the European
Union, the paper proposes a simple but novel voting scheme for binary decisions taken by …

Technological advances and the development of social media have made petitions, public
protests, and other form of spontaneous activism increasingly common tools for individuals …