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The concept of the Rule of Law, which describes how states are governed, has been around for millennia. Rule of Law entails that all institutions, including the government, must uphold the supremacy of the law as opposed to Rule by Law, which places the government above the law and uses the law to govern.
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Protagoras on democracy and the rule of law
The sophist Protagoras is famous for being the first consistent relativist who argued that there is no objective truth and every perception is valid for those who experience it. He extended this relativism to morality and politics and maintained that the
Giorgini, Giovanni
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Rule of law, democracy, openness, and income [PDF]
AbstractWe estimate the interrelationships among economic institutions, political institutions, openness, and income levels, using identification through heteroskedasticity (IH). We split our cross‐national dataset into two sub‐samples: (i) colonies versus non‐colonies; and (ii) continents aligned on an East–West versus those aligned on a North–South ...
Roberto Rigobon, Dani Rodrik
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Law, Liberty and the Rule of Law (in a Constitutional Democracy) [PDF]
This chapter considers the relationship between the concepts and conceptions of law and the rule of law. It begins by arguing that the ideal embedded in the concept of the rule of law cannot be logically derived from merely combining the content of the concept rule with the content of the concept law.
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Corruption, democracy and bureaucracy [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship of corruption with democracy and bureaucracy in the 82 countries in a panel framework. For the analysis we use rule of law, regulatory quality, control over corruption and secondary school enrollment ratio as control ...
Aviral Kumar TIWARI
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En los textos que componen “Usos del pasado. Qué hacemos hoy con los setenta”, Claudia Hilb atraviesa temáticas que sirven de disparador para retomar y reflexionar sobre ciertos debates jurídicos que parecen estar clausurados en la discusión pública ...
Belén Gulli
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The rule of law in Athenian democracy and in Plato’s laws
This paper examines how Plato both draws on Athenian ideas about the rule of law but also refines and reforms in accord with his philosophical views. Like the Athenians, Plato also believes in the importance of the accountability of officials, but takes ...
Harris, Edward M.
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Democracy and the Rule of Law [PDF]
Annabelle Lever
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Between democracy and dictatorship: Hybrid regime and rule of law [PDF]
Past and on-going political affairs linked to the pandemic, particularly in Serbia (which fits the concept of a hybrid regime), created discussions among some lawyers on whether the President's declaration of a state of emergency was constitutional or ...
Mišić Marica
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The Janus-Faced Attitude of Global International Law to Democracy
This paper considers the relationships between global international law and democracy as well as between democracy and human rights. Its primary assumption is that some obstacles to democracy are rooted in international law itself.
Barbara Mikołajczyk
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