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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Constitutional reform"”.
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The Labor Party and Constitutional Reform for India
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Legitimacy in question : elite-mass relations, constitutional reform and Canadian democracy /
… study, ofelite-mass relations in the arena of constitutional politics augments these complementary profiles and illustrates how the transformed electorate has significantly restricted the elected political elite's role in constitutional reform. The study concludes that the lack …
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Failed Liberalism and the Seeds of Revolution: Russian and Chinese Constitutional Reform at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
… and China underwent periods of political and constitutional reform unprecedented in the long histories of both states. This paper explores the conceptualization of Weberian legitimacy as it applies to these turn-of-the-century trends of political reform in Russia and China. I argue that both …
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Domestic politics or EU influence: what is driving Turkey's constitutional reforms?
… changes made to the constitution. Most of this constitutional reform has happened since the European Union (EU) announced that Turkey had achieved candidate status for eventual membership in the Union in 1999. Many scholars attribute Turkey’s democratization, of which constitutional reform is an …
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Administrative morality in Colombia
… a cause of action created by the Colombian constitutional reform of 1991: administrative morality. This cause of action was created with the purpose of facilitating citizen engagement in governmental administration by allowing ordinary people to file a lawsuit to challenge governmental …
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Conflicting narratives, the emergent third way, and peace: a constructivist approach to Ethiopia's conflicts
… strife. The research focuses on the 1995 constitutional institution of ethnic federalism - a mechanism intended to redress historical grievances, yet frequently implicated in exacerbating societal fragmentation and inter-group tensions. The study investigates two dominant, antagonistic …
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A történeti alkotmány elemei az angol alkotmányfejlődésben
… az 1832. évi, valamint z 1867. évi választójogi reformok, a Statute of Westminster, az European Communities Act, illetve a Constitutional Reform Act.
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Public participation in the drafting of the 2013 Zimbabwean Constitution: The role and significance of the populace
The defining moment of Zimbabwean constitutional reform came in 2008 after the disputed and violence riddled elections of 2008 when the three main political parties entered into a transitional Government of National Unity and were tasked with the establishment of a new constitution which was …
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Postavení francouzského prezidenta v kontextu V. republiky
… of the electoral calendar. Thanks to these reforms the probability that the system freezes in the period of cohabitation decreased significantly. In that context, this paper examines in what extend the role of the president became more important and how the last three french heads of state …
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The Political Thought of the Chartist Movement
The Chartist movement was the mass-movement for constitutional reform in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Chartism is one of the most written about subjects in modern British history, yet the ideas of the movement remain strangely neglected. This thesis tackles this problem by examining Chartist …
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Governance & Legal Reform in Countries Emerging from Conflict
… literature by exploring how conflict states use constitutional reform to foster development and democratic transition, particularly among countries that have emerged from civil war. These include the United States, Spain, and Sri Lanka, which, in each of the past three centuries, have experienced …
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The Hindu Code Bill and the making of the modern Indian state
… debates about women's rights and family law reform in inter-war and early independence India. Focusing on the Hindu Code Bill, an attempt to reform and codify Hindu family law that began in 1941 and culminated in 1956, it argues that these reforms sought to alter the way in which male …
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Wilhelm Busch: The Art of Letting Off Steam Through Symbolic Inversion
… had been sparked by demands for democracy and constitutional reform, Germany’s princes reluctantly introduced new freedoms regarding print and the right to assembly. However, reactionary forces in governments unwilling to cede power quickly repressed these freedoms, leading to tighter controls …
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The politics of unconventional oil : industrial and technology policy in Brazil, Malaysia, and Mexico
… Mexico to replace the rules of the sector with a constitutional reform that aligned incentives for long-term investments, attracted private capital, relied less on oil rents for public finances, and promoted local procurement. In Brazil and Malaysia, this study shows that the technically …
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Keeping promises in federal systems: the legal status of intergovernmental agreements with special reference to Belgium and Canada
… redesign federal structures on the margins of constitutional norms. They are used to circumvent the formal distribution of powers and to introduce asymmetrical arrangements. They act as substitutes for constitutional reform or serve to by-pass constitutional amendment procedures. They can have …
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State, Conflict and Political Economy of Oil in Nigeria
… Nigeria, has crippled even nascent attempts at reform resulting to socio-economic stagnation, which relates directly to the rising trend of violence in the region. One of the key contributions of the study also is through an analysis of “illegal oil bunkering” as an empirical case of how …
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AMBIENTE E INIZIATIVA ECONOMICA PRIVATA NEL GOVERNO DELLA TRANSIZIONE VERDE. PRINCIPI E VALORI COSTITUZIONALI IN CHIAVE COMPARATA
The doctoral thesis explores the constitutional relationship between environmental protection and private economic initiative. The research adopts a comparative perspective, focusing on the Italian and French legal systems, while also taking into account the broader framework of European Union law. …
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An analysis of the Committee for the Security of the Kingdom of the Scottish Parliament, 1693-1702
… known as the 'Glorious' Revolution, resulted in constitutional reform in all three kingdoms. William landed in England on 5 November, 1688, and James fled just over a month later. A group of one hundred and ten leading Scottish peers and gentry gathered in Whitehall to discuss the future of their …
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Decentralization and health performance in Italy: theoretical and empirical issues
… value of 1 after the introduction of the 2001 constitutional reform). From a methodological point of view, the real novelty of the analysis is to take spatial dependence and neighbourhood effects among the regions into consideration. Modelling the impact of decentralization through an …
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