The decision that took the United States off the gold standard was, both then and now, seen as a bold action by an executive branch during the trying economic times of the early 1930s. FDR ran on a platform of reform, and saw virtually no opposition from a Congress willing to let the executive...

This paper aims to explain amendments to the Court Organization Law in Taiwan with a revised insurance theory. With the effort of the Prosecutors Reform Association (PRA) and the Judicial Reform Foundation (JRF), significant changes were made to the Court Organization Law in 2006. The...

This paper aims to evaluate the effect of different institutional designs on the economic policymaking process and outcomes. I focus on the bargaining between executive and legislative branches of government over the definition of fiscal policy under separation of powers in presidential regimes....