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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 115–123.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to make in the heat of battle but rarely expected to remember, let alone keep. But Hollande has been quite meticulous in honoring a number of them. Still, of the 60 pledges, only two had anything to do with France’s hidebound judiciary that has changed little since the Napoleonic Code was established...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 16–22.
Published: 01 June 2017
... with defendants’ right to know the full charges against them? Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 international law justice judiciary Researchers discovered thousands of files in Chad allegedly documenting crimes committed under the Hissène Habré regime. Researchers discovered...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 87–88.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of Singapore in his article “Love amined by the investigator, and produced
Thy Nanny: Singapore’s Tongue-Tied Popu in Court as evidence, if necessary.
lace” (World Policy Journal, winter 2000/01). Mr. Kurlantzick wrote of a “compliant
The Singapore Government is a respon judiciary.” The Singapore...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 43–50.
Published: 01 September 2002
... mandates. Thus, the supreme leader (Vali-ye
tion that would deny the clerics on the Faqih) was invested with the power to abro
Council of Guardians—the political fortress gate election results and to select the heads
of orthodoxy and autocracy—the highhand of the armed forces, the judiciary...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 79–85.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... judiciary is absent, the rights of the indi
The private sector has had significant hands- vidual cannot be protected against the en
on experience with the development of ma croachments of state power. There is also the
ture legal systems and is therefore in a good problem of inadequate law...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 107–116.
Published: 01 September 2013
... an independent judiciary can monitor both (while at the same, a truly free fourth estate, namely the press, can observe the operations of all three), then we have a functioning democratic system. I would suggest we could probably count the numbers of such countries on the fingers of one maimed hand. Still...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 71–80.
Published: 01 March 2002
... “Mossadegh,” in honor pointed by the supreme leader, and 6 nomi
of the popular prime minister who national nated by the judiciary and approved by Par
ized the oil industry and was deposed in a liament) and is the Islamic Republic’s
coup organized by the U.S. Central Intelli equivalent...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 60–67.
Published: 01 March 2004
... media.
improve the human rights situation in Some innovative companies have already
Nigeria. started pilot projects dedicated to upgrading
In the years ahead, businesses, human judiciaries in the developing world. The
rights activists, and governments...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 86–92.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., environmental negligence, and the growth of Hindu nationalism in textbooks, on television, and in popular culture. Keeping the judiciary weak is part of Modi’s government’s lax approach to human rights. In the February budget for 2016, only 0.2 percent of total spending was allotted to the Law Ministry. Two...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 41–47.
Published: 01 March 2003
... (government-owned offenses as the theft of goats. The death
corporations and agencies in which private sentence imposed on Amina Lawal, a peas
investors may be permitted some ownership ant woman condemned for having a child
interest), members of the judiciary, and the out of wedlock, stirred a global...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 13–21.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to take photos for you, or your cameras could disappear; don’t give money to panhandlers, or they will ask for more; don’t go to undeveloped areas by yourself; and don’t take food from strangers since it might contain drugs. the strength of the judiciary has a direct impact on individuals...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 82–89.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of torture and death in detention as well as for an effective reform of the security apparatus and the judiciary.” (As of April 2016, the ruling was amended to exclude reference to the National Security Agency.) However, as rulings by the European Parliament are not binding, it will be up to EU High...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 79–86.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... In addition, you have a judiciary that is the protector of the dominant discourse, be it religious, political, or that of the powerful. The judiciary is functioning as a protector of the regime.” This is hardly the exception in countries shaken by the Arab Spring, where the tug-of-war between factions over...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 3–7.
Published: 01 September 2012
... that Prime Minister Nehru embedded in the Indian constitution—an independent judiciary, assurances that the army can’t play a political role, and the abolition of the feudal system. Without these, Pakistan has floundered for 65 years, trying to establish democracy. The role of the Pakistani army both...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 100–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
... case loads, shoddy police work, and poor communication. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 justice judiciary South Africa policing law ARBORESCE ARBORESCE In 1983, Betty Ketani left South Africa’s Eastern Cape in search of work in Johannesburg. She soon found a job...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 17–24.
Published: 01 December 2001
... the Democrats of the Left as Com
First, in 1997-98 the center-left failed munists and to claim that the crisis of the
to ensure the institutional reforms necessary early 1990s was a coup d’état carried out by
to turn Italy into what the then leader of the Communist sympathizers in the judiciary...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 91–100.
Published: 01 March 2012
... lost two consecutive elections, remained in control of the Sandinista organization. With the control the two leaders exerted over their party members in congress, they were able to modify the constitution to distribute government positions among themselves, including the judiciary. As a result...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 87–88.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of the American
system is in its unequal representation of different interests: every state, big or small, elects
two senators, and all governments fall within the purview of a nonelected judiciary that sig
nificantly overepresents an older generation. It is federalism, and not democracy, that consti...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 108–117.
Published: 01 June 2013
... spectrum of different aspects of government—how effectively they function in working for the people they profess to serve. I began with the judiciary. But as important as that function is in protecting the safety and freedom of nations, penetrating our lives even to the most basic levels, none affects more...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 65–70.
Published: 01 March 2000
... corruption, system, the judiciary, the administration,
abuses by security forces, unemployment, and investment procedures. Most important,
and the growing gap between rich and poor. the broadly based government provided the
Pressured by the rise of the Islamists in the necessary leadership...
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