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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Constitutional design"”.
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The Effects of State Constitutional Design of Gubernatorial and Legislative Authority in State Budget Policy
… examined by this research is how variation in design might impact the ability of governors and state legislatures to achieve preferred policy alternatives. This is addressed through the divergence between the governor's proposed budget and the state legislature's enacted budget. To analyze …
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Indirect Election and the Democratization of the United States Senate: Constitutional Design, Historical Development, Roll Call Voting, and the Outcome of National Election
The goal of this dissertation is to make a series of interrelated points regarding the relationship between ideas, institutions, and behavior with respect to indirect election and the United States Senate. The dissertation begins with an investigation of the origins and development of the Classical …
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Constitutions, not commitment: international law, diffusion, and the construction of universal constitutional principles
Constitutional design processes increasingly take on a transnational dimension. Whether through diffusion of human rights and liberal democratic norms into national texts or through the involvement of international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and expert advisors in a small but …
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Executive interference and the erosion of the rule of law: a comparative study of the prosecution of official corruption offences in Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States of America
… a comparative doctrinal study, analysing how constitutional sociology, political economy, cultural politics, and political cultures shape interference. Three hypotheses guide the research: in Nigeria, centralised control and military-shaped tolerance drive executive interference and undermine …
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The politics of sovereignty : federalism in American political development
… relationships, and understandings of the constitutional order. This dissertation seeks to show how the American federal system is both cause and effect of political development. Even as it structures legal and political contestation, American federalism is shaped—even redefined—by such …
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The interplay of judicial review and federalism choices in Brazil after the Republican Constitution of 1988
… this work was structured in three sub-questions designed to study specific federalism constitutional options pertinent to all distinct levels of Brazilian federalism, namely: federal union, states, and municipalities. The first sub-question targets the inclusion of local governments as autonomous …