Lecturer, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Okara, Okara, Pakistan.Lecturer, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Okara, Okara, Pakistan. by Hamid Rasool, Dr. Anwarullah

“…The principal objective of these legislatures is to protect humanity from the blight of war and provide equal rights and liberties to different sects of the human population. …”
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Anti-transgender rights legislation and internet searches pertaining to depression and suicide. by George B Cunningham, Nicholas M Watanabe, Erin Buzuvis

“…Employing a quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group design, we focused on bills that were introduced to state legislatures from July 2019 to July 2020. As our panel is constructed of 51 states/territories over a 52-week time frame, our final dataset is composed of 2,652 observations. …”
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The T-Dem as a Realistic Utopia: Why It Fits with What We Know About Parliaments by Olivier Rozenberg

“…An Assembly fitted with the multifunctional nature of legislatures. - III. An insurance against free-riding. - IV. …”
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Politics is local: State legislator voting on restrictive voter identification legislation by Seth C McKee

“…The marked increase in restrictive voter identification (ID) laws since the 2010 elections reveals the extreme partisan polarization in those state legislatures advancing this reform. Unlike previous studies that examine state-level factors expected to influence passage of restrictive voter ID bills, this study is the first to investigate the question using the state legislator as the unit of analysis. …”
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DE LA CLARTÉ À L’ARBITRAIRE : LE CONTRÔLE DE LA QUESTION ET DES RÉSULTATS RÉFÉRENDAIRES PAR LE PARLEMENT CANADIEN by Patrick Taillon

“…Enacted unilaterally by the federal Parliament, the act is encroaching, in some respects, on the power of provincial legislatures to organize elections and referendums held on a provincial scale and, in some other respects, on the exclusive power of the constituent to amend, in compliance with Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982, the supralegislative norms – written or unwritten – that make up the Canadian constitutional law. …”
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Specyfika konstytucjonalizmu stanowego w USA by Dariusz Stolicki

“…It concludes that the foregoing features of state constitutions primarily reflect distrust in state governments (particularly legislatures) and willingness of political actors to treat constitutions as ordinary policy instruments as opposed to fundamental law. …”
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PERAN LURAH DALAM PEMILIHAN UMUM LEGISLATIF, PEMILIHAN UMUM PRESIDEN/WAKIL PRESIDEN, DAN PEMILIHAN KEPALA DAERAH/WAKIL KEPALA DAERAH DI KOTA TEBING TINGGI by Hatta Ridho

“…The key informan in this research is individual who knows of involved directly in process of general election and major election, i.e., villages chief, members of KPUD, legislatures, people figures, election monitor and to have functionaries of political party.The results of research indicates that village chief has strategic role in three momentums of election. …”
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Use of the Local Law Advantage in the Restructuring of European Sovereign Bonds by Mitu Gulati, Lee C. Buchheit

“…Emerging market sovereigns issue bonds in the international capital markets governed by a foreign legal regime such as the law of England or New York State.European sovereigns, however, have been able to issue bonds governed by the issuer’s own law.In the event of a future financial crisis, this gives European sovereign issuers the ability to pass local legislation that will facilitate an eventual restructuring of their bonds -- the “local law advantage.”Greece did this in 2012 as part of a restructuring of €206 billion of Greek Government bonds.The validity of the revisions to Greek law enacted in 2012 by the Greek Parliament has been upheld in multiple judicial challenges (in Greece, Germany, Austria and before the European Court of Human Rights), as well in a major ICSID arbitration.This raises the question of whether other European sovereigns enjoying the local law advantage over their bonds can, in an emergency, rely on the power of their own legislatures to amend local law in order to facilitate a future restructuring of those instruments…”
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GENDER ISSUES IN APPLICATION OF ISLAMIC LAW IN NIGERIA by Muhammad S. Umar

“…Brief political background helps to explain the </em>shari‘a <em>codes enacted by the legislatures of the states, drawing largely from the classical formulations of Maliki school of Islamic law. …”
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Comparing and Analyzing Policy Formulation of Proposed and Final Public Policies by Catherine Chen, Christopher M. Weible, Tanya Heikkila, Jennifer A. Kagan

“…This paper builds on arguments in policy formulation, the institutional grammar, and comparative public policy by comparing and analyzing the initial and passed versions of 105 bills in six U.S. state legislatures from 2007 through 2017. Our substantive context is oil and gas development. …”
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PERAN LURAH DALAM PEMILIHAN UMUM LEGISLATIF, PEMILIHAN UMUM PRESIDEN/WAKIL PRESIDEN, DAN PEMILIHAN KEPALA DAERAH/WAKIL KEPALA DAERAH DI KOTA TEBING TINGGI by Hatta Ridho

“…The key informan in this research is individual who knows of involved directly in process of general election and major election, i.e., villages chief, members of KPUD, legislatures, people figures, election monitor and to have functionaries of political party.The results of research indicates that village chief has strategic role in three momentums of election. …”
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Who Is My Neighbor? The Spatial Efficiency of Partisanship by Nicholas Eubank, Jonathan Rodden

“…Relative to its overall statewide support, the Republican Party has been over-represented in congressional delegations and state legislatures over the last decade in a number of US states. …”
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Financial crisis and the decline of fiduciary law by Getzler, J

“…This chapter identifies the cutting back of fiduciary obligations by courts and legislatures as a possible contributory cause of the financial crisis that erupted in 2008. …”

(Not)withstanding minority rights: re-thinking Canada's notwithstanding clause by Salvino, C

“…In this paper, I argue that the current scholarship that focuses primarily on the relationship between the courts and legislatures, overlooks the threat the notwithstanding clause poses to constitutional minority rights protections. …”

Does power always flow to the executive? Interbranch oscillations in legislative authority, 1976-2014 by Chaisty, P, Power, T

“…Contrary to stereotypes of executive dominance, relative gains by legislatures are no less frequent than gains by executives, and economic crises do not advantage political executives in consistent ways. …”

Electoral systems and geographic representation by Carello, L, Eggers, A

“…<p>Who gets represented in legislatures, and how does this depend on electoral institutions? …”

How do minority presidents manage multiparty coalitions? Identifying and analyzing the payoffs to coalition parties in presidential systems by Chaisty, P, Chernykh, S

“…It has understood multi-party presidential coalitions as cabinet-level constructs, which bind the support of parties in legislatures through portfolio payoffs. In this paper, we explore this analysis in a non-Latin American context: post-Soviet Ukraine. …”

Interpretation of General Terms and Emerging Developments; A Comparative Study of Imami Jurisprudence and American Law by Reza Pourmohammadi, Rahim Nobahar

“…Technology and science are ever-expanding in a rapid pace but, legislatures are often one step behind. This fact raises an important question: How do emerging developments in science and technology affect the way we interpret legal texts? …”
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Exploring Perceptions of Sustainable Development in South Korea: An Approach Based on Advocacy Coalition Framework’s Belief System by Hyunjung Lim, Jonghwan Eun

“…This study aims to explore the South Koreans&#8217; perceptions of sustainable development among various stakeholders such as experts, bureaucrats, legislatures, civic group members, company employees, and journalists. …”
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Partisan Gerrymandering and the Political Process: Effects on Roll-Call Voting and State Policies by Caughey, Devin, Tausanovitch, Chris, Warshaw, Christopher

“…Keywords: redistricting, gerrymandering, state politics, representation, legislatures…”
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