Proportionality, accepted as a general principle of constitutional law by many countries,
requires that government intrusions on freedoms be justified, that greater intrusions have …

What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across
countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has developed since the 1970s into a …

Our purpose in this Foreword article is to revisit, update, and theoretically revise Mauro
Cappelletti's path-breaking work Judicial Review in the Contemporary World. Our main …

In a democracy, a constitutional separation of powers between the executive and the
assembly may be desirable, but the constitutional concentration of executive power in a …

It is sometimes suggested that one or another constitutional or supreme court-for example,
the Indian,'US, 2 or German 3-iS the" most powerful in the world." And yet it is far from clear …

AMENDMENT CREEP Page 1 AMENDMENT CREEP Jonathan L. Marshfield* To most
lawyers and judges, constitutional amendment rules are nothing more than the technical …

Most democracies task specialized commissions, which are collectively known as Electoral
Management Bodies (EMBs),'with responsibility for administering elections. Election …

This Article aims to show that whatever the formal arrangements on the separation or
“fusion” of executive and legislative powers—whether presidential, parliamentary, or semi …

Legal and political controversies persist about the performance of Kelsenian-type
constitutional courts in democratic systems. One of the reasons is that the design of these …

One of the advances in contemporary legal and governmental ideas to arise in the 20th
century was the notion of establishing a Constitutional Court. A constitutional court is a high …