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Loopholes
Chung, Kim-sau; Fortnow, Lance - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 126 (2016) 595, pp. 1774-1797
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The Interpretation of Plurilingual Tax Treaties : Routine Interpretation — A Refutation
Resch, Richard Xenophon - 2020
Based on an analysis of 3,844 tax treaties, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and its Commentaries (VCLT), and case law of various domestic and international courts.The current orthodoxy maintains that courts are not required to compare all language texts of a plurilingual treaty but...
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Civic participation : element of European democracy
Bercu, Ana-Maria - In: CES working papers 1 (2009) 1, pp. 5-9
Democracy is explained by giving the power to the government, with the consent of citizens, expressing their will, directly or indirectly through voting. Promoting and respecting individual and collective rights and freedoms is the foundation of democracy. Citizen participation is remarkable on...
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Information, Civil Liberties, and the Political Economy of Witch-Hunts
Mui, Vai-Lam - 2010
Drawing from an extensive literature on the European Witch-Hunt, McCarthyism, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, this paper studies how differences in the level of civil liberties protection and the extent to which the leader has better information about the level of the alleged menace than...
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After Tackett : Incomplete Contracts for Post-Employment Healthcare
O'Brien, Maria - 2015
This paper examines the recent U.S. Supreme Court retiree health care decision in Tackett v. M & G Polymers and focuses, in particular, on the ostensibly odd silence with respect to a critical contract term — whether the parties in fact agreed that these benefits were vested. Although the...
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Testing Tradition in Tonga : Approaches to Constitutional Change
2009
The Constitution of Tonga, 132 years old in 2007 -- indeed one of the world's oldest extant constitutions -- has … recently, for the first time in history, been subjected to significant scrutiny by the people who live under it. The review … general elections of March 2005 have been among the most momentous in history.This paper attempts to stand back from the …
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Laicism : idolatry trap or constitutional nihilism
Alnasir, Samer - 2022
constitution, or the act of 1905, it’s not what it appear, and mostly known in the french literature, this article is to reject all … questions of how the idea of laicism has been reversed into the interwar period thus to the 1958 constitution to be developed in …
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America in theory
Berlowitz, Leslie (ed.) - 1988
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Regulation of Europe's network industries : the perspective of the new economic theory of federalism
Bickenbach, Frank - 2000
transaction-cost-political approaches. There has been some progress in recent years in developing such a "new economic theory of … federalism". Basic ideas and some insights of this theory are discussed with regard to the appropriate "federal" allocation of …
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Why Delegate? : An Incomplete Contracting Approach to Environmental Federalism
Lin Lawell, C.-Y. Cynthia - 2004
This paper examines the optimality of environmental regulatory delegation when neither output levels nor effort levels are contractible. The key trade-off is that while the federal government is able to internalize externalities, the state governments have preferences that are better aligned...
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