We offer a policy basis for interpreting, justifying, and designing (3,3)-political rules, a large class of collective rules analogous to those governing the selection of papers in peer-reviewed journals, where each referee chooses to accept, reject, or invite a resubmission of a paper, and an...

We analyse the professional community of attorneys in Russia in order to understand their potential for collective action in an imperfect institutional environment. In 2013 we conducted a survey of 372 attorneys in 9 regions of Russia. Two main hypotheses are tested: 1) lawyers with strong...

Spain is the Member State of the European Union whose public opinion is most in favour to exit the Eurozone. In this context, there is a growing social and political debate on this Number in this Member State. This paper analyses at a theoretical level the main economic and socio political...

Wrongful convictions may increase the level of crime over the ideal case of their absence. The problem of wrongful conviction is most serious in areas where crime is endemic and for certain groups of citizens who are stereotyped. State liability mitigates this problem; compensating the...

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo estudiar la cohesión social y su relación con la evasión de impuestos en Bolivia. La cohesión social, entendida en términos sencillos como aquellos elementos que mantienen unida a una sociedad, determina la cooperación entre individuos....

The proposals of the Commission to review the Constitution of Romania were subject to the analysis of experts from the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission), who expressed their opinion in a report adopted at the 98th plenary session of the European body. The...

The Constitution is the fundamental law, which includes all general rules and principles that are the essence of the rule of law. It organises and establishes the functions of the national authorities, and it enshrines the fundamental rights and freedoms, as well as their warranties. Due to its...

On the 21st of December 1989, Romania was still having a Constitution established by Ceausescu in 1965. It was a Marxist Constitution which proclaimed the Communist Party as the sole leading political force of the entire society and the Great National Assembly as the supreme institution of the...

The Constitutional Court of Romania was considering an innovation in the Romanian constitutional system. The Events in 1989 December ended the Communist dictatorship in Romania and allowed the re-establishment of democracy. And a strong negative reaction towards the totalitarian regime has been...