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Democratic theory and constitutional adjudication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
By focusing on the practice of constitutional courts this paper aims to present a qualitative-analytical tool which could contribute to a better (self-)understanding and evaluation of constitutional adjudication.
Pócza, Kálmán
core   +1 more source

Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Remedies of Elimination of a Statutory Privilege Incompatible with the Right to Equality And Non-Discrimination by the Constitutional Courts [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Constitutional Law, 2019
While performing the constitutional review, constitutional courts often have to assess the constitutionality of legal provisions, which grant a privilege concerning social benefits, tax exemptions or similar matters to a certain group of the society ...
Nino Chochia
doaj  

Litigating War: The Justiciability of Executive War Power [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Courts frequently dismiss claims against the Executive’s use of the war power as being non-justiciable political questions. This lack of a judicial check has created a situation in which meaningful checks and balances on the war power are found only in ...
Smith, Chris
core   +1 more source

Values and visibility: How CEO activism influences private and public consumer choices

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Firms' and executives' stances on controversial issues affect consumer behavior. This “political consumerism” might be motivated by ideology and a desire to signal to peers, and thus vary for private and public purchases. We conduct an experiment with 1198 consumers to study how purchase visibility affects responses to CEO ...
Young Hou, Christopher Poliquin
wiley   +1 more source

Dialing It Back: Why Courts Should Rethink Students’ Privacy and Speech Rights as Cell Phone Communications Erode the ‘Schoolhouse Gate’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The ubiquity of cell phones in today’s society has forced courts to change or dismiss established, but inapplicable analytical frameworks. Two such frameworks in the school setting are regulations of student speech and of student searches.
McGuire, Nicholas J.
core   +1 more source

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

Constitutional Identity Between Riga and Strasbourg: The Courts’ Dialogue Developing Latvian Constitutional Law

open access: yesLaw: Journal of the University of Latvia
The article provides insight into the recent development of the concept of constitutional identity in the Latvian legal system. The authors mainly focus on the dialogue between the national highest courts, especially the Constitutional Court, and the ...
Artūrs Kučs, Jānis Pleps
doaj   +1 more source

Beggars as Rational Choosers

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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