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So No Damn Politician Ever Scrap It: The Constitutional Protection of Social Security Benefits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Is the nation’s old-age pension system bankrupt? Each year brings repeated warnings of a need for immediate reform. Yet somehow, reasonable people and even experts dispute both the severity of the crises and the scope of the reforms, if any, that ought ...
Hawes, Matthew H.
core   +3 more sources

Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional Reform

open access: yes, 2016
‘Constitutional reform’ in P. Diamond and R. Liddle ed., Beyond New Labour: the future of social democracy in Britain (London: Politico’s, 2009), pp. 171-87.
openaire   +3 more sources

Local Power to Tax and Devolution: An Empirical Assessment of the French Constitutional Reform [PDF]

open access: yes
The article explores the content and consequences of the French constitutional reform of March 2003. Among the objectives of that reform, one is to preserve the tax autonomy for the local public sector; another is to ensure that the coming wave of ...
Alain Guenguant, Jean-Michel Josselin
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The EU and Bosnia and Herzegovina: Democracy promotion within the limits of the "ethnic conflict" paradigm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Seeking to contribute to the emerging debate about the substance of EU democracy promotion policies, this paper takes as its focus Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the EU‟s current democracy promotion efforts are primarily focused on reform of the country‟s
Cooley, Laurence
core  

Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

O PACTO FEDERATIVO BRASILEIRO E OS LIMITES À REFORMA FISCAL – BRAZILIAN FEDERATIVE PACT AND LIMITS ON TAX REFORM

open access: yesRevista da Seção Judiciária do Rio de Janeiro, 2011
Partindo de uma análise histórica, o presente trabalho busca investigar os limites para a reforma constitucional do federalismo brasileiro. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Pensamento político brasileiro. Federalismo. Reforma constitucional.ABSTRACT:
Tiago Severini
doaj  

Il pendolo del "federalismo all'italiana" e la proposta di riforma costituzionale del governo Renzi [PDF]

open access: yesRevista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2015
The paper provides a key to understanding the regulatory and legal affairs of the Italian regionalism with particular reference to the constitutional reform of 2001 and the project of constitutional reform under consideration in Parliament in 2015.
Alessandro Sterpa
doaj  

From traditional practice to unsustainable exploitation: Fruit overharvesting on the endangered relict palm Jubaea chilensis

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Overharvesting of wild edible plants poses a growing threat to plant populations worldwide, particularly for slow‐growing species with limited regeneration. We quantified fruit extraction from the third‐largest known population of Jubaea chilensis—an endangered palm endemic to Chile—modeled the critical harvest threshold, and assessed consumer ...
Sebastián Cordero   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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