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Informal Concentration of Powers in Illiberal Constitutionalism: The Case of Hungary
Classic and new concepts of the separation of powers doctrine focus on the control of central political power. Institutional checks and balances are...
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Corruption and Separation of Powers: Where do Prosecutors Fit?
While much attention has been paid to the fact that corruption investigations and prosecutions may jail politicians and high echelons of the civil...
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Legal Offices and Legal Powers
In his chapter, the author analyses the relationship between legal offices and legal powers. Based on the definition of legal offices as immaterial...
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Delegation of Administrative Powers to AI Systems
This chapter deals with the highly pertinent question of whether the use of AI technologies by a government agency in performing its administrative...
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Autonomy of Local Government in Ethiopia
In line with the tradition of other dual federations, the Constitution of Ethiopia makes local government the competence of state governments. It,...
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Deepening the Openness of Government Affairs and Building a Transparent Government in Hubei Province
The year 2020 was a very extraordinary as well as a very difficult year in the history of Hubei Province: the Millennium Dream converged with the...
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Emergency Powers and Martial Law Under the Constitution of Bangladesh
The Constitution of Bangladesh 1972 did not originally contain any provisions for the executive to proclaim an emergency or a martial law. The...
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Golden Powers in Strategic Sectors: A European Perspective
The raise and progresses of golden powers depend on economic factors, which inevitably produce effects on the law. In this context, Regulation (EU)...
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Local Government in Australia: Constitutionally Subordinate, but Vibrant and Fundamental
Local government in Australia is a creature of the constituent states of the federation. Attempts by the federal government to recognise local...
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Government
This chapter summarizes current constitutional design regarding Government. It is based on the review of national constitutions and seeks to...
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Emergency Powers, Constitutional (Self-)Restraint and Judicial Politics: the Turkish Constitutional Court During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper investigates the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC)’s treatment of legal challenges brought against Turkey’s legal responses to the...
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Screening Authorities in the EU: Considerations on Governance, Powers, and Accountability
Investment screening regimes have proliferated over the past few years across the European Union, following the adoption of the EU Screening...
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Presidential Powers and Veto Rights
This chapter summarizes current constitutional design regarding presidential powers and veto rights. It is based on the review of national...
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Local Government in the United Kingdom
Local government in the UK is complex, comprising a separate system for each of the UK’s four nations. These are the product of centuries of history....
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The Constitution and System of Government
The dispersed and opaque nature of Western Australia’s Constitution—its rather chaotic character—makes simple explication an essential, but far from...
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Taming of the megalomaniac institution: perspectives on regulating the unbridled powers of the BCCI
The boisterous emotion associated with the game of Inches, i.e., Cricket has given this ‘mere’ sport, the dimension of worship, faith, religion and a...
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Regulating Strategic Communications Investigation: The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (UK) as an Exemplar for India
This chapter posits that India should consider reforming its strategic communications investigation regulatory framework using the UK’s Investigatory...
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Comparing and Contrasting Local Government in Federal Systems
The chapter provides a renovated analysis of how local government is arranged within federal countries. To this end, it aims to fill the gap in...
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U.S. Government
In the United States, the three branches of government at the federal and state level—legislative, executive, and judiciary—all produce law. The law...
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A Theory of Standards for Intermediary Powers
There is a widespread sense that intermediary institutions which made representative democracy function ever since the nineteenth century—political...