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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern 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
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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Constitutional Court Jurisprudence and Its Role in Shaping Public Administration Reform in Romania
Transylvanian Review of Administrative SciencesThis article aims to investigate the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court regarding the public administration reform in Romania. We take into consideration the motivation of the public authorities involved in the law-making process, as well as the ...
Alina Georgiana Profiroiu +3 more
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The requirement of the special Constitutional significance: «decide not to decide»
Estudios de Deusto, 2014 This paper aims to explain the doctrinal evolution of the special constitutional significance in Spanish Constitutional Court decisions. First, we will study the main impact of the reform of the Organic Law 6/2007, of May 24, on the appeal; secondly we ...
Yessica Esquivel Alonso
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, 2014 In this essay, Dr. Erik J. Chaput and Russell DeSimone examine and contextualize the events surrounding the Dorr Rebellion of 1842 and the consequences that followed for those involved, primarily Providence attorney Thomas Wilson Dorr, who was the ...
Chaput, Erik J., DeSimone, Russell J.
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Political actor or policy instrument? Governance challenges in Australian local government [PDF]
, 2013 This article examines the governance challenges facing Australian local government, which include lack of constitutional standing, intergovernmental dependencies, financial constraints and weak democratic standing.
Nicola Brackertz
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract COVID‐19 has intensified interest in crisis policy learning, yet the micro‐level interactions among political, bureaucratic, and expert actors remain underexplored. We conceptualise an ideal‐type framework for the micro‐flow of crisis learning, an ordinarily epistemic and context‐specific process of individual‐level interactions, where lessons
Neil Mortimer, Nicholas Bromfield
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Perspectives on Federalism, 2018 The aim of involving state members in reforming federal constitutions is to guarantee them the autonomy that they have been constitutionally granted.
Alberdi María Reyes Pérez
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The Strengthening of the Commission Competences by the Constitutional Treaty and the Principle of Balance of Power [PDF]
A lot has been written about the European Commission as the main administrative institution of the European Community: about its work, competences, its organisational problems and the administrative reform initiated by President Prodi after the ...
Eva Nieto Garrido
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THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ASPECTS OF COMPREHENDING A NEW CONSTITUTIONAL DOCTRINE IN UKRAINE
Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2019 The article is devoted to the research of the nature and essence of some aspects of the new constitutional doctrine in Ukraine. Attention is paid to the basic constitutional and legal concepts actualized at the present stage of development of Ukraine as ...
Kateryna Holovko +2 more
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