Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
The Parker School Journal of East European Law
Author: The Journal of East European Law
Author: Information Sources in Law
Author: J.R. WintertonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110976412
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The aim of each volume of this series Guides to Information Sources is to reduce the time which needs to be spent on patient searching and to recommend the best starting point and sources most likely to yield the desired information. The criteria for selection provide a way into a subject to those new to the field and assists in identifying major new or possibly unexplored sources to those who already have some acquaintance with it. The series attempts to achieve evaluation through a careful selection of sources and through the comments provided on those sources.
Judicial Law-Making in Post-Soviet Russia
Author: Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135392234
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Politics, Judicial Review, and the Russian Constitutional Court
Author: C. ThorsonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230368972
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Analysis of why politicians are driven to create an independent judicial institution with the authority to overrule their decisions. It focuses on a country with no tradition of independent judicial review - Russia. History does not support an independent judiciary here; yet a potentially powerful constitutional court has existed for 20 years.
Justice, Crime, and Citizenship in Eurasia
Author: Erica MaratPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000637751
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
What role does law play in post-communist societies? This book examines the law as a social institution in Eurasia, exploring how it is shaped in everyday interactions between state and society, organisations and individuals, and between law enforcement and other government entities. It bridges the gap between theoretically rich work on law-in-action and the empirical reality of Eurasia. The contributions in this volume include research on policing, the legal profession, public attitudes towards law, regime support and oppositional mobilisation, crime policy, and property rights, among others. The studies shift away from the common perception that, in Eurasia, the law exists only as a tool for the state to enforce order and suppress dissent. Instead, they show, through empirical analyses, that citizens evade, use, reinterpret and shape the law even in authoritarian contexts—sometimes containing state violence and challenging the regime, and other times reinforcing state capture from below. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Europe-Asia Studies.
Secured Credit and the Harmonisation of Law
Author: Gerard McCormackPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 0857933450
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This book will be of great interest to practitioners, policymakers and academics, as well as students, particularly postgraduate students, of law and business throughout the world.
The Changing Faces of Federalism
Author: Sergio OrtinoPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719069963
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book discusses the tradition and the institutions of federalism in the Eastern, Central and Western European countries and deals with many innovative issues such as multi-level-governance, network government, devolution, subsidiarity, asymmetry and functionalism. An assumption of the book is that the European enlargement and the new European constitution could result in two major evolutions in the future: one is a full federal state, the other is an institutional response to the effects of the technological innovations of our epoch.
Environmental Protection in Transition
Author: John ClarkPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 135193953X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
This book takes an interdisciplinary look at environmental protection during Poland’s transition to market democracy. The contributors are recognised experts in their fields, making this an authoritative volume, combining the perspectives of economists, legal scholars, political scientists and sociologists.
Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Volume 1: Institutional Engineering
Author: Jan ZielonkaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199241678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
This is the first volume in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The series focuses on three major aspects of democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe: institutional engineering, transnational pressures and civil society. This first volume analyses constraints on and opportunities of institutional engineering in Eastern Europe: to what extent and how elites in Eastern Europe have been able to shape, if not manipulate, the politics of democraticconsolidation through institutional means.The aim is to contrast a set of democracy theories with empirical evidence accumulated in Eastern Europe over the last ten years. The volume tries to avoid complex debates about definitions, methods and the uses and misuses of comparative research. Instead it tries to establish what has really happened in the region, and which of the existing theories have proved helpful in explaining these developments.The volume starts with a presentation of conceptual and comparative frameworks, followed by in-depth empirical analyses of the thirteen individual countries undergoing democratic consolidation. The first conceptual and comparative part contains three chapters. The first chapter explains what institutional engineering is about and describes our experiences with institutional engineering in former transitions to democracy. It also focuses on the import and export of institutional designs. Thesecond chapter analyses the utility of constitutions in the process of democratic consolidation. The third chapter compares constitutional designs and problems of implementation in Southern and Eastern Europe. The empirical case studies deal with the following countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and Poland. And the conclusions evaluate the enormous impact of institutions on politics in Eastern Europe and show how central constitutional designs are to the institutional engineering in the societies undergoing transitions to democracy.