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Transformative Constitutionalism and the Right to Health in Latin America

open access: yesRevista de Direito Sanitário
The most important objective of transformative constitutionalism is to transform society by fostering democracy, protecting human rights, and seeking to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality.
Rodolfo Gutiérrez Silva
doaj   +1 more source

The brazilian constitution as third generation product: convergence and differences between the latin american constitutionalism and legal garantism theory

open access: yesScientia Iuris, 2015
This article addresses the phenomenon of the latinamerican constitutionalism, its characteristics, critical issues and its challenges facing the European constitutional models, such as the legal garantism and neoconstitutionalism.
Luiz Henrique Urquhart Cademartori   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

CONSTITUTIONALIZING SELF-DEFENCE [PDF]

open access: yesUniversity of Toronto Law Journal, 2011
Taking its cue from the Supreme Court of Canada's constitutionalization of the criminal law's unwritten general part, this article illustrates the interaction between criminal law theory and constitutional law that process implies. It does so by applying a criminal law theory of why and when force in self-defence is justified in order to assess the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Evaluating Citizen Participation: A Proposal for Multivariate Analysis of Its Potential and Obstacles From Development Interventions

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Citizen participation in public policy and development projects has gained critical importance, particularly in the context of international cooperation. This paper introduces the Citizen Participation Index (CitPI), a novel tool designed to measure the capacity of citizen participation to influence public policies effectively.
Luciano Barbosa de Lima   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Level of Constitutionalism, as a Guarantee of the State’s Capacity

open access: yesBanber Erevani Hamalsarani. Sots'iologia, 2017
The article examines the relationship between the level of constitutionalism and state capacity. Analysing the main approaches to assessing the state's capacity, the system of indexes of capacity was given in a generalized manner. The article also draws
Karlen Khachatryan
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The Case of Sylvia Mahlangu—The Fight for Legislative Inclusion for Domestic Workers in South Africa

open access: yesDiversity &Inclusion Research, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 2025.
ABSTRACT An estimated 800,000 domestic workers live and work in South Africa. Domestic work is an industry dominated by Black women who are often from marginalised backgrounds. It is one of the few sources of employment accessible to poor and low‐income women not only in South Africa but around the world as well. The foundations of the sector were laid
Thulani Nkosi, Nerishka Singh
wiley   +1 more source

The Tea Party Movement and the Perils of Popular Originalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The Tea Party movement presents something of a curiosity for constitutional theory because it combines originalist ideology and popular constitutionalist methods. Like minotaurs, werewolves, and other half-man, half-animal hybrids of myth and legend, the
Goldstein, Jared A.
core   +1 more source

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