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Pakistan replacing the presidential appointment of high-court judges with peer appointments. Mehmood leveraged judicial records … interpreted and coded by lawyers in Pakistan at the levels of cases, districts, benches, and individual judges. We successfully … execute all Stata code in the author's replication archive without any errors, then translate and execute that code in R …
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On 24 March 2024, presidential elections were held in Senegal, with opposition politician Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, who was 43 at the time, emerging as the winner. On 2 April 2024, he was sworn in as the fifth President of the Republic of Senegal. This event may mark a turning point in the...
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Over 10 years ago, Feld and Voigt (2003) introduced the first indicator for objectively meas-uring the actual independence of the judiciary and demonstrated its utility in a large cross-section of countries. The indicator has been widely used, but also criticized. This paper pre-sents more...
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Few studies on federalism analyze the role of courts as safeguards of the federal arrangement, and those that do tend to be too optimistic about what courts can do. This article analyzes the effect of judicial review on the interaction between the central and a regional government in a...
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Is "rule of law" anything more than a fictional allusion? After all, "law" is an abstract noun, and abstract nouns can't rule. Only people can rule. Rule of law is a fiction, one that has been around since ancient times. Whether, or under what circumstances, rule of law might be an ideal type...
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-century expectations or understandings of the English constitution. They are distinguished as expectations of method, national specificity … of the rule of law, relative to comparable earlier leading writings on the English constitution, answered those … expectations. Dicey's expectation of congruity of the constitution's first principles is shown to have been of particular strength …
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Azhar, one of the most respected Sunni religious institutions in the world, developed a model of an Islamic constitution …. This study uses Al-Azhar's constitution as a model of Islamic constitutionalism, whereby its stance regarding rule of law … is examined. We find that Al-Azhar's constitution does not correspond with essential concepts of rule of law. For example …
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certain words in its constitution? We tried to empirically measure the effect of constitutions –if any– on the … quantitative aspects of the constitution and the institutional and socioeconomic well-being of the country; and that new … constitutions, over time, tend to be more extensive, with more articles and words. We now know, from a qualitative analysis, that …
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, wie sich die Politik als Rechtsstaat konstitutionalisiert. In Anlehnung an die Arbeiten von William Baumol wird das …
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