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The Guyana Court Of Appealby Bertrand G Ramcharan
Routledge-Cavendish 2002; US$ 150.00This text is one of the few studies of how the rule of law has fared in a developing country since it achieved independence. It reveals how the travails of the rule of law are related, intertwined with the problems of nation building in a multi-racial country. more...
Constitutionalism and Dictatorshipby Robert Barros; Adam Przeworski
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00It is widely believed that autocratic regimes cannot limit their power through institutions of their own making. This book presents a surprising challenge to this view. It demonstrates that the Chilean armed forces were constrained by institutions of their own design. more...
Colombian Criminal Justice in Crisisby Dr Elvira Marí Restrepo; a; Richard Clogg
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 130.00Most people believe that criminal justice in Colombia is rife with impunity and corruption. Elvira María Restrepo delves beneath such beliefs to reveal a system driven at a fundamental level by fear and distrust from outside the system itself. With the present difficulties in the country tantamount to a state of irregular war, the judiciary is in crisis. It has to contribute to the construction of peace and the reconstruction of trust, or perish. more...
Courts under Constraintsby Gretchen Helmke; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates; Ellen Comisso; Peter Hall; Joel Migdal; Helen Milner
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 72.00This study offers a new theoretical framework for understanding how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy. In stark contrast to conventional wisdom, the central findings of the book contradict the longstanding assumption that only independent judges rule against the government of the day. more...
Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorshipby Lisa Hilbink
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 32.00This book analyzes Chilean judicial behavior before, during, and after authoritarian rule. more...
OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform - Brazilby OECD Publishing
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2008; US$ 63.00The debate on a market-based economy has now entered a new phase in Brazil, addressing the broader context of quality regulation and the reduction of regulatory risk. The improved macroeconomic situation and the progress made by the sectoral regulatory agencies have paid off, and there is also wider social participation in the improvement of the regulatory framework with a stronger consumer engagement. But Brazil still needs to further improve its capacities for regulatory quality and increase transparency and accountability in the system to reinforce regulatory performance. This review analyses the challenges of strengthening regulatory governance in Brazil to improve economic growth, with appropriate regulatory frameworks for core infrastructure... more...
Las Normas internacionales del trabajoby International Labour Office
International Labour Office 2002; US$ 5.00Describes the main content of all ILO Conventions and Recommendations which respond to current needs and makes reference to those instruments which are to be revised. Identifies the most frequent problems encountered in the application of these standards in various countries. Includes papers on ILO standards policy and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up. more...
Paraguay - Empleo y protección socialby International Labour Office
International Labour Office 2003; US$ 25.00Describes the relationship between the labour market, social protection and poverty. Examines the role of labour market policy, minimum wage and small enterprises on reducing poverty and promoting decent work. Investigates social security coverage in health, retirement and pension benefits and reviews plans for reforming the social security system. more...
The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin Americaby Daniel M. Brinks
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 81.00The effect of social inequality, political influence, and institutional design on the effectiveness of Latin American legal systems. more...
Constitutional Documents of Chile 18111833by Horst Dippel
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2007; US$ 209.00The book edition of Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the middle of the 19th Century is the most complete and academically thorough collection of its kind. It contains constitutional documents from all over the world, written from 1776 to the end of the year 1849. This collection includes about 1,000 constitutions, human rights declarations, and draughts of constitutions that never came into force, from this period. These early constitutional documents were collected and examined in archives and libraries all over the world, as part of a project by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). Using the original documents, experts from American and European universities reconstructed the authentic... more...