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Labour's Many Constitutions (and Capital's Too)

Tucker, Eric - 2014

In recent years there has been an outpouring of popular and scholarly writing on the constitutionalization of labour rights. In this paper I seek to add to this literature in three ways. First, at a conceptual level I unpack two important dimensions of labour rights, their thickness and their...

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Constitutional Erosion Caused Capitalist Decay

Boettke, Peter J. - 2010

The author argues that the decay of liberal capitalism is the consequence of social rules that leave unconstrained the …

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Rent-Seeking, Crony Capitalism, and the Crony Constitution

Zywicki, Todd J. - 2015

In the United States, the term “crony capitalism” refers to a political-economic system that resembles traditional … interests in exchange for electoral support, under crony capitalism politicians and regulators use businesses to advance the … legislation such as the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation illustrate the differences between crony capitalism and mere rent …

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The comparative constitutional compliance database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2022

, whereas military dictatorships perform the worst. Although compliance is not determined by a constitution's breadth … the constitution achieve higher compliance levels. …

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The comparative constitutional compliance database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

This article introduces a novel database that measures governments' compliance with national constitutions. It combines information on de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we...

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The assignment of powers in an open-ended European Union

Salmon, Pierre - 2003

A major characteristic of the European Union is its transitional or evolving nature, in particular with regard to the assignment of powers between the two main levels of government. More precisely, under current constitutional arrangements, this evolving nature takes the form of an integration...

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Constitution on ice

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2014

influence, let alone contest, a national referendum on a new constitution because, if they didn't like the result, they would …-sourced constitution bill from 2009 to 2014, and also offers an explanation as to why the bill failed to be passed by Parliament …

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