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The success of legislators’ bills in strong presidential systems: Chile, 1990–2018

Journal of Legislative Studies, 2022
In democracies where the executive has bill initiation powers and controls the legislative agenda, most laws enacted should come from executive-initiated bills.
Vicente Faúndez Caicedo, Verónica Figueroa Gutiérrez, Patricio D. Navia, Carolina Pérez Aburto   +3 more
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Defining 'older people' in Chile: challenges in planning policies for ageing populations.

Health Policy and Planning, 2020
The concept of older adult is extensively used in day-to-day discussions and public policy. Nonetheless, concrete operational definitions are scarce.
Pablo Villalobos Dintrans, C. Izquierdo, René Guzmán, María José Gálvez, Sylvia Santander   +4 more
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Voice, power and legitimacy: the role of the legal person in river management in New Zealand, Chile and Australia

Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 2018
In 2017, rivers in New Zealand, India and Colombia received legal rights and were granted the status of legal persons. The increased legal powers, often a result of groundbreaking agreements or settlements with Indigenous peoples, may improve ...
E. O’Donnell, E. Macpherson
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Law and Development Memoirs I: The Chile Law Program

The American Journal of Comparative Law, 2000
This is the first of two brief memoirs of "law and development" projects of the 1960s and '70s1 in which the writer was centrally involved. One of them, the Chile Law Program, had modest ambitions and, until it fell victim to larger political events in Chile, promised to be modestly effective.
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Did Chile’s traffic law reform push police enforcement? Understanding Chile’s traffic fatalities and injuries reduction

Injury Prevention, 2014
Background The objective of the current study is to determine to what extent the reduction of Chile’s traffic fatalities and injuries during 2000–2012 was related to the police traffic enforcement increment registered after the introduction of its 2005 traffic law reform.
José Ignacio, Nazif-Munoz, Amélie, Quesnel-Vallée, Axel, van den Berg   +2 more
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Big Law in Chile: A Glance at the Law Firms

2017
In this chapter we demonstrate that the traditional professional practice as well as the law firm in Chile responds to the supply and demand mechanism. A moderate offer of legal services determined by the entry barriers to the profession (specifically due to the small number of law schools) along with a demand from unsophisticated economic actors ...
Iñigo de la Maza Gazmuri, Rafael Mery Nieto, Juan Enrique Vargas Viancos   +2 more
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The ILO Domestic Workers Convention and regulatory reforms in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. A comparative study of working time and remuneration regulations

International labour review (Print), 2018
In June 2011, the International Labour Conference adopted the Convention concerning decent work for domestic workers, No. 189, and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201.
Lorena Poblete
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The Effects of Equal Pay Laws on Firm Pay Premiums: Evidence from Chile

Labour Economics, 2022
G. Cruz, Tomás Rau
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The differentiation of law in Chile

2014
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Differenzierung des Rechtssystems in Chile. Die grundlegende Frage der Arbeit ist: Welche Bedingungen ermöglichen die Entstehung eines funktional differenzierten Rechtssystems in Chile. Diese Fragestellung führt unweigerlich zum Problem des funktionalen Differenzierungsprozesses.
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Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective

Crime, law and social change, 2022
Carol Chan, Nathalie Gómez
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