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The paper investigates the effects of checks and balances on corruption. Within a presidential system, effective separation of powers is achieved under divided government, with the executive and legislative branches being controlled by different political parties. When government is unified, no...
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Hürden beim Zugang zu Recht zu überwinden. Zu diesem Ergebnis gelangt Lisa Hahn mithilfe mobilisierungstheoretischer Ansätze … examines under which conditions such change can be achieved and why the collective mobilization of law is essential for this …
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Historiker das Recht als zentralen Gegenstand ihrer Wissenschaft begreifen. Ansonsten verstehen sie weder ihre Geschichte noch … in public and constitutional law and historian, addressed in his writings on jurisprudence, constitutional history, and … social history, the history of law and that of society. For him, these areas of study shared an overarching cognitive …
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Building on literatures on racial regimes and the legacy of slavery, this study conceptualizes and constructs a novel measure of the historical racial regime (HRR), and examines how HRR influences contemporary poverty and racial inequality in the American South. The HRR scale measures different...
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This paper examines racial disparities in mortgage processing time prior to the global financial crisis. We find that Black borrowers are underrepresented and experience a longer processing time than White borrowers among the mortgages securitized by government-sponsored enterprises. At the same...
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both friends and strangers within the predictability provided by the rule of law, entails both incentives and mechanisms …
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This paper presents a model of Rule of Law in which a continuum of agents plays against the State for the appropriation … to the global game approach. On the one hand, this model predicts that high uncertainty and sunk costs in law enforcement …
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security legislation if they are constrained by rule of law institutions that are embedded in a liberal political culture. …
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assets or to invest. The model predicts that high uncertainty and potential sunk costs in a situation of rule of law … asset-stripping are high, this is instrumental to a rule of law enforcement, a Pareto-dominant equilibrium. High … institutional quality can increase the likelihood of rule of law enforcement if there is enough information about the strength of …
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Freedom House political rights indices. Second, the distinction is made between democracy and law and order (order based on … legal rules); the latter is measured by the rule of law, investors' risk and corruption indices. We discuss two … interconnected threshold hypotheses: (1) in countries where law and order is strong enough, democratization stimulates economic …
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