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The Legalization of Medical Marijuana: A Human Rights Law Perspective

Human Rights in the Global South, 2022
The discourse on legalizing marijuana for medical purposes in Indonesia peaked when legislators discussed the draft law on the narcotics law amendment. Efforts to legalize marijuana for medical purposes have also been pursued by testing the narcotics law.
Zaka Firma Aditya, Sholahuddin Al Fatih
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State Capture—Institutionalized Corruption of the South African Revenue Service

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study provides valuable insight for scholars, practitioners, and government officials on how a local office of a respected international consulting firm became associated with allegations of illicit influence and state capture. The article presents how political and business leaders used a government agency, the South African Revenue ...
Jennifer H. Heckel, Prescott C. Ensign
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Governing the Ungovernable: Mapping the Development of Groundwater Irrigation and Groundwater Policies in India

World Water Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Groundwater governance is complex due to several externalities associated with groundwater being an invisible natural resource tied to the land with millions of extractors and limited means of exclusion. The paper traces the evolution of groundwater irrigation in India and the corresponding change in groundwater laws and policies to address ...
Anindita Sarkar, Amrita Sarkar
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Politik Hukum Pengaturan Keserentakan Pemilu

Jurnal Konstitusi, 2022
General elections in Indonesia have shifted a lot motivated by efforts to seek their ideal form. The last time, elections were held simultaneously by combining the five types of elections stipulated in Article 22E of the 1945 Constitution.
Abdul Basid Fuadi
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Papua New Guinea's Public Services Commission since independence: Sidelined or strengthened?

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates reforms to the Public Services Commission (PSC) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) since independence in 1975. It looks at the original role of the PSC and then the various reforms it has been subject to: in 1986, 2003, and 2013, by constitutional and legislative change, and in 2019, by court ruling.
Nematullah Bizhan, Stephen Howes
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NOTION, ORDER OF ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION SUBJECTS

Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2016
Objective: to analyze the current state of the institution of representative offices of the Russian Federation subjects and their interaction with the federal state power bodies (by the example of Tatarstan Republic).Methods: systematic and structural ...
R. A. Sakhieva
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THE REMOVAL FROM OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF ONE OF THE CHAMBERS OF THE ROMANIAN PARLIAMENT BETWEEN OPPORTUNITY AND NECESSITY. REFLECTIONS ON THE CCR DECISION NO. 17 OF JANUARY 26, 2022 [PDF]

Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2022
In March 2022, a decision of the Romanian Constitutional Court was published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, which brings to the attention of practitioners, but also of the general public, the issue of the removal from office of one of the ...
Gheorghe STAN, Cristina TITIRIȘCĂ
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The Role of Unity and Differentiation of Legal Regulation in the Foundation of the Social Security Law Branch System

Vestnik Omskoj Ûridičeskoj Akademii, 2013
The scientific approaches to the foundation of the legal branch system of the social security law are analyzed in the article. The author offers two models of structuring its special part, based on the necessity of its norms differentiation according to ...
Antipyeva N. V.
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The Multilevel Implications of a Sinn Féin Government in Ireland

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 173-179, January/March 2025.
Abstract The electoral growth of Sinn Féin on both sides of the Irish border has generated much political and academic attention in recent years. The party could form part of the government in Dublin for the first time at the next Irish general election, though that outcome is far from certain.
Conor J. Kelly
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Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 189-198, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the ...
John Denham, Janice Morphet
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