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Credit Assignment and Federal Encroachment

Bednar, Jenna - 2007

Opportunistic encroachment by the national government on state policy domains erodes the robustness of federal unions. Theories of electoral and political safeguards of federalism suggest that the political process protects federalism's boundaries. This article develops a theory distinguishing...

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The Prosecution of Public Figures and the Separation of Powers : Confusion within the Executive Branch - a Conceptual Framework

van Aaken, Anne; Salzberger, Eli; Voigt, Stefan - 2005

Criminal investigation and prosecution of politicians, top civil servants and other public figures are topics frequently discussed in the media. The nature of the investigating or prosecuting authority varies between countries - from the general public prosecutor, through magistrates to...

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Negotiating Federalism and the Structural Constitution : Navigating the Separation of Powers Both Vertically and Horizontally (A Response to Aziz Huq)

Ryan, Erin - 2015

Professor Aziz Huq has made an important contribution in The Negotiated Structural Constitution, 114 Colum. L. Rev. 1595 (2014 … idea that the Constitution does not resolve every structural question, and that certain unresolved structural dilemmas are … the text of the Constitution cannot account for every possible ambiguity. Moreover, they conclude that political …

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