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Strategic Judicial Decision Making [PDF]

This survey paper starts from the basic, and intuitive, assumption that judges are human and as such, can be modeled in the same fashion we model politicians, activists, managers: driven by well-defined preferences, behaving in a purposive and forward ...
Pablo T. Spiller, Rafael Gely
core  

The Democratic Legitimacy of the Micro‐Deliberative Shortcut: A Defense of Randomly Selecting Legislators

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Eric Shoemaker
wiley   +1 more source

What Voting Power Cannot Be

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
wiley   +1 more source

Checks and balances: an assessment of the institutional separation of political powers in Colombia [PDF]

In this paper, we evaluate the institutional and legal structure of the Colombian government. In particular, we want to assess how a system of institutional checks and balances can be structured to promote the rule of law, preserve property rights, and ...
Kugler, Maurice, Rosenthal, Howard
core  

Does Non‐Idealism Entail Particularism?

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
John Lawless
wiley   +1 more source

Disagreement About Fiscal Policy

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Politicians disagree about fiscal policy. This disagreement should have economic effects beyond the effects of government spending and taxation. We use the full set of speeches in the German Bundestag since 1960 and apply state‐of‐the art natural language processing techniques to construct two series of fiscal disagreement starting in 1970 ...
Albina Latifi, Viktoriia Naboka‐Krell, Peter Tillmann, Peter Winker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

South Korea's THAAD Decision at the Domestic–International Nexus: Preferences, Information, and Constraints

Pacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Korean President Park Geun‐hye's 2016 decision to authorize the deployment of the U.S. Forces Korea THAAD system—and Beijing's subsequent economic and diplomatic coercion—marked a decisive inflection point in Seoul's China policy.
Joel Atkinson
wiley   +1 more source

Supreme Constitutional Court review of the legislative omission in Egypt in light of international experiences. [PDF]

Heliyon
Aboelazm KS.
europepmc   +1 more source

The El Salvador Exception in a Pacific Rim Context: Outsourced Security Governance Across the Americas and the Asia‐Pacific

Pacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the 2025 US decision to deport members of the Venezuelan‐origin gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador under a $6 million incarceration agreement, arguing that the episode represents a critical evolution in outsourced security governance. By comparing this case with the 1980s deportation of Salvadoran gang affiliates, the paper
Taeheok Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Generations in the grove: the Dongria Kondh's ecological kinship and intergenerational resilience. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Yadav A.
europepmc   +1 more source