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Constitutional Retrogression in Indonesia Under President Joko Widodo's Government: What Can the Constitutional Court Do?

open access: yesConstitutional Review, 2018
This paper examines whether constitutional retrogression, the process through which democratically elected rulers use formal legal measures gradually to undermine democracy, has occurred in Indonesia, especially during the reign of President Joko Widodo.
Abdurrachman Satrio
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The Indonesian Constitutional Court: Reconfiguring Decentralization for Better or Worse?

open access: yesAsian Journal of Comparative Law, 2018
After Soeharto stepped down in 1998, Indonesia began a radical decentralization program, one aspect of which was granting wide-ranging lawmaking powers to subnational governments.
S. Butt
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Local people in both frontier and intensifying landscapes in Ecuador desire forest restoration that provides multiple benefits

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forest restoration is being promoted globally as an action that addresses multiple challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss and poverty. But restoration projects will only persist over the long term if their goals are aligned with local people's interests and priorities.
Gabriela Barragán, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla
wiley   +1 more source

NOTION, ORDER OF ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION SUBJECTS

open access: yesRussian 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 Constitutional Court Ultra Petita as a Protection Form of Economic Rights in Pancasila Justice

open access: yesJournal of Indonesian Legal Studies, 2019
Social justice concept has been clearly emphasized at Pancasila (the five fundamental values of Indonesia) as one of common values of Indonesia society. Pancasila also recognized as the philosophical grondslag which makes Pancasila as a reference of all ...
Rofi Wahanisa
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Unity and Differentiation of Legal Regulation in the Foundation of the Social Security Law Branch System

open access: yesСибирское юридическое обозрение, 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 ...
N. V. Antipyeva
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Taming regressive constitutional amendments: The African Court as a continental (super) Constitutional Court

open access: yesInternational Journal of Constitutional Law, 2019
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has the required substantive basis to function, and has in fact shown the willingness to operate, as a constitutional court for Africa.
A. Abebe
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Papua New Guinea's Public Services Commission since independence: Sidelined or strengthened?

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

Law-Making Activity in the Case Law of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine

open access: yesInternational and Comparative Law Review, 2019
Summary The aim of this paper is to reveal and examine law-making elements in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. It should be noted that the Constitutional Court has no direct powers to establish new legal norms under national ...
K. Trykhlib
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