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German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
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Federalism and Health Care [PDF]

Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2011
President Barack Obama proposed a major overhaul of the American healthsystem, and in 2010 the U.S. Congress enacted his proposal, the PatientProtection and Affordable Care Act.
G. Alan Tarr
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An Introduction to the Federal Constitutional Court

German Law Journal, 2001
If social and political stability in a democratic state requires effective constitutional review, the brutal instability of German society over the first half of the 20th Century testifies to the shortcomings of earlier manifestations of German constitutionalism and the mechanisms for constitutional review upon which those constitutional systems relied.
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‘Why didn't you bring us a pumpkin?’ Relational recognition of caste, class, and tribe in rural Andhra Pradesh, India « Pourquoi ne nous as‐tu pas apporté de citrouille ? » Reconnaissance relationnelle de la caste, de la classe et de la tribu dans les zones rurales de l'Andhra Pradesh (Inde)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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BALIZAS DO CONTROLE DE CONSTITUCIONALIDADE PREVENTIVO: UMA ANÁLISE DO MANDADO DE SEGURANÇA 32.033 A PARTIR DO PROCEDIMENTALISMO DISCURSIVO [PDF]

Revista Acadêmica, 2020
This article analyzes the position adopted by the Federal Supreme Court in Writ of Mandamus n. 32.033, which examined a petition for suspension of a bill and denied it, asserting that judicial intervention in the legislative process
Thales Alessandro Dias Pereira
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State Choices, Unequal Access: Policies Shaping Reproductive Health Care Across the United States

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points State policies and programs play an outsized role in shaping availability and access to sexual and reproductive health services across the nation. This has a major impact on women's access to contraception, abortion, and maternity services.
ALINA SALGANICOFF, IVETTE GOMEZ, USHA RANJI   +2 more
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Constitutional federal process: essential characteristics and national-state characteristics (a comparative study)

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки, 2021
Background. In the era of global transformation, affecting the sphere of state building, the importance of complex, federal systems is increasing. To describe them, it is advisable to use unified approaches in the form of models, an important component
A.D. Gulyakov
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Orzeczenia Federalnego Trybunału Konstytucyjnego dotyczące zwołania posiedzenia Bundestagu w dniach 13 i 18 marca 2025 r. w celu rozpatrzenia projektu zmiany Ustawy zasadniczej

Przegląd Konstytucyjny
This study discusses the rulings of the Federal Constitutional Court regarding the convening of a session of the Bundestag on 13 and 18 March 2025 to consider a draft amendment to the Basic Law.
Piotr Czarny
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Protection of the economic basis of local self-government in the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Russia

Правоприменение, 2020
The subject. The article is devoted to the analysis of decisions of the Constitutional Court of Russia concerning the economic basis of local government in Russia in order to demonstrate the special role of its legal positions in ensuring and protecting ...
Oleg A. Kozhevnikov, Irina V. Glazunova
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