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From Audit to Prosecution: Institutional Collaboration as a Solution to Closing the Expectations Gap in Decentralized Governance

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A long‐standing topic of concern in the literature on governmental auditing is whether the aims of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) or other central audit institutions should include detecting fraudulent use of public money. The balance of opinion has been against this proposition, largely for reasons of infeasibility.
Michael Barzelay, Sérgio N. Seabra
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of the Historical Constitution in Hungary

Gdańskie Studia Prawnicze
Compared to other constitutions, the Hungarian Basic Law relies heavily on extra-legal elements. These include culture, religion, and history. Because of its historical references, some contemporary Hungarian authors consider the Basic Law to be archaic (
Lóránt Csink
doaj   +1 more source

Some thoughts on socio-economic rights [PDF]

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2003
colloquium presentation - no abstract ...
GE Devenish
doaj  

An Argument from Comparative Law in the Jurisprudence of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal1

Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2018
The use of references to foreign law and jurisprudence by the constitutional courts around the world currently gains more and more attention from scholars.
Ada Paprocka
doaj   +1 more source

Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
wiley   +1 more source

Judicial Law-Making in European Constitutional Courts

, 2020
This book analyses the specificity of the law-making activity of European constitutional courts. The main hypothesis is that currently constitutional courts are positive legislators whose position in the system of State organs needs to be redefined.

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Politics, socio-economic issues and culture in constitutional adjudication [PDF]

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2003
Colloquium presentation - no abstract ...
F Venter
doaj  

Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
wiley   +1 more source

The burgeoning constitutional requirement of rationality and separation of powers has rationality review gone too far? [PDF]

, 2013
This thesis presents an analysis of three recent judgments of our apex courts which collectively illustrate a maximising of the 'minimum threshold requirement' of rationality through the seemingly inexhaustible constitutional principle of legality.
Kohn, Lauren Manon
core   +1 more source

The value of dissent in constitutional adjudication : a context-specific analysis

, 2014
This paper addresses the long-standing international debate over whether the publication of dissenting opinions should be permitted in constitutional courts of last resort.
Vitale, David
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