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We use NOMINATE (Nominal Three Step Estimation) (Poole and Rosenthal, 1983, 1997) to estimate ideal points for all Supreme Court Justices in Brazil from 2002 to 2012. Based on these estimated preferences we identify the nature of the two main dimensions along which disagreements tend to occur in...
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In this article we argue that privatization of core government authorities create structural changes. Litigation against Privatization processes of core government authorities must address these institutional-structural changes in executive authority, and not rely on potential violations to...
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the validity of the elections to the lower house of the French Parliament between 1958 and 2005. It uses a new dataset on …
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As the U.S. Supreme Court imposes federalism-based limits on congressional power under the Commerce Clause and Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress may be tempted to turn to the conditional spending power in order to achieve goals that it cannot realize directly. In this article I...
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In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …
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