This paper examines the foundations of the Italian Constitutional Court's authority by comparing it with that of the German Federal Constitutional Court. In comparison to the German Court, la Corte had to build its authority on a particularly weak legal basis. However, it succeeded in developing...

Papers presented at the Seminar on "Central Authority versus Federal Autonomy: Problems of Centre State Relations in India and Germany" on 14 and 15 Oct. 1994 and National Symposium on "Re-orienting Federalism" on 3 and 4 December 1996 in Chennai, India

This paper focuses on the evolution of the institutional presidency - meaning the cluster of agencies that directly support the chief of the executive - in Argentina and Brazil since their redemocratization in the 1980s. It investigates what explains the changes that have come about regarding...