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We study changes in the form of government as an example of endogenously determined constitutions. For a sample of 202 countries over the period 1950-2006, we find that most changes are relatively small and roughly equally likely to be either in the direction of more parliamentarian or more...
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The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, postconstitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country and a variety of...
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De jure judicial independence (JI) is the single most important predictor of de facto JI. In this paper, we describe under what conditions countries are likely to include JI in their constitutions. We describe and analyze both their original choice in this regard as well as change over time...
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In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one´s vote may … from 1977 to 1995. The hypothesis that voting is only instrumental is clearly rejected by the data. …
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