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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"executive power"”.
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The Australian Defence Force and the executive power : limiting the indefinable?
… seeks to establish the limits to the exercise of executive power by the Australian Defence Force (ADF). It will argue that there are identifiable limits, although they cannot be precise limits because executive power is meant to deal with the unpredictable and the external. Within Australia, these …
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The Australian Defence Force and the executive power : limiting the indefinable?
… seeks to establish the limits to the exercise of executive power by the Australian Defence Force (ADF). It will argue that there are identifiable limits, although they cannot be precise limits because executive power is meant to deal with the unpredictable and the external. Within Australia, these …
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Seeing the constitution as they see it: Presidential reconstitutions, executive power, and interbranch conflict
… a feature. The structural sparring between the executive and judicial branch is typically mundane, but when presidents fight with the judiciary in times of national crisis, those conflicts have profound ramifications for political reality and executive power. In moments of large-scale national …
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Madison, Hamilton, and Reagan: The Limits of Executive Power in Foreign Policy and the Reagan Intervention in Nicaragua
The distribution of power between the executive branch and the legislative branch in the realm of foreign policy is a delicate balance and one that has been debated since the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. The debate has gotten no less intense and no less crucial in the …
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The Unitary Executive and Power in the Modern American Presidency
<p>In evaluating presidential power, substantive focus on the administrative aspects of the presidency emphasizes the crucial importance of a president’s degree of control, and dominance, over the executive branch. In this dissertation, I examine the relationship between the unitary executive, in …
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An application of Lindbergs thesis in assessing democratic growth in Zambia
… judicial autonomy, legislative autonomy, executive power, openness, and popular legitimacy of democracy.
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National Security Crises and the Expanding American Presidency
… government. During times of crisis, the executive branch of the government has often expanded its authority claiming that it requires extra powers to defend the nation. After the September 11 terrorist attacks, the George W. Bush administration expanded executive power and Congress did …
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The institutional determinants of property regime change in new democracies: the Russian Federation, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
… Constitutions are designed to distribute power among actors, generate efficiency, and govern the interactions among actors. My findings showed that constitutional designs intentionally and sometimes with unanticipated consequences can result in highly cooperative, competitive, or …
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The rise and decline of the Icelandic commonwealth
… legal and judicial order without any central executive power, with private enforcement of law. Although it is difficult, now, to determine the attractiveness of this system, e.g., in comparison to other European Nations at that time, the theoretical interest remains the same.
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Constitutional limitations and the rule of law: an Indian perspective
… constitutional limitations on legislative and executive power. Since the enforcement of the Constitution of India in 1950, the Indian Supreme Court has played a pivotal role in defining, operationalizing, and enforcing the rule of law through judicial review. However, this role has been …
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Ordinamento giudiziario amministrativo e garanzie statiche della giurisdizione
… stands at the stormy meeting point between the executive power and the judiciary and in Italy, as it is and as it was in other countries, administrative justice was born even from within the administration. The fact that administrative justice is located in a border area implies that it has …
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Partisan politics in the southern cone: is there anything left for the left? Political institutions, privatisation and policy outcome
… in each state. In particular, the level of executive power, and in the Uruguayan case, mechanisms of direct democracy, proved key determining factors.
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Executive Regulation of Abortion During the Reagan-Bush Years
… agenda. This thesis analyzes the rise in executive power and how Reagan and Bush used administrative mechanisms to create a regulatory strategy to eliminate the right to abortion. The power of appointment and the use of the presidential veto were key components of the administrative …
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Judgment on the sword : the US Supreme Court's jurisprudence on presidential war powers.
… Court's jurisprudence on presidential war powers from the early republic to the present. It argues that the Court's jurisprudence has generally defended both a broad presidential power to prosecute war as well as a strong judicial power to enforce constitutional limits on the executive. In …
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Presidential rhetoric in times of crisis: A textual analysis of speeches by franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan
… about the use of the Constitution and their executive power in order to address crises. Thus, Roosevelt and Reagan's use of the pre-defined rhetorical terms listed in this study and the use of political party-specific rhetoric concerning the power of the executive branch may have influenced …
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Power sharing in Northern Ireland: design, operation and proposals 1999-2006
The literature on power sharing focuses on the intense debate between consociationalism and integrative approaches. While consociationalists maintain that democracy in divided societies can be developed via a ‘grand coalition’ and segmental autonomy, ‘integrationists’ argue for institutions that …
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Test Cases: Reconfiguring American Law, Technoscience, and Democracy in the Nuclear Pacific
… relationship between America’s growing global power and its core democratic principles. Following World War II, U.S. officials crafted a new political entity under the auspices of the United Nations—a strategic trusteeship—to administer Pacific islands it seized from Japan. The Trust Territory …
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Human rights law in Tunisia in the post-Arab Spring era
… considered by the Tunisian Parliament and the executive power. The 2014 Constitution included recommendations from states, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and international organisations suggested from the second cycle of the UPR in 2012. The positive changes in law have continued, with …
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Executive Powers: The Role of the Supreme Court in an Expanding Presidency
… on the issue of express versus inherent executive powers. In his interpretation of presidential powers, Hamilton sows the seeds for an argument which justifies the exercise of executive powers in combating situations of domestic emergency and in matters concerning the general welfare or …
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