New Zealand has an established history of mental health legislation that sits within a framework of human rights, disability and constitutional protections. We outline a brief history of mental health legislation in New Zealand since its inception as a modern state in 1840. The current legislation, the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992, defines mental disorder and the...

in any political system, recognition of constitutional keywords is an important pathway for understanding constitutional system desirably. the recognition matters increasingly, when a keyword is rooted in constitutional system&aposs; ideological bases and its underlying political theory. ummah, a term with religious and islamic theme, has come from religious literature into the constitution of ...

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The Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities drafted the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA or Model Act) at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Model Act provides state actors with the powers they need to detect and contain bioterrorism or a naturally occurring disease outbreak. Legislative bills based on th...

The vote NO (a defeat for the proponents) of 2016 Italian referendum has been broadly attributed to a wave protest politics sweeping Western democracies. Given that government Matteo Renzi proposed and supported referendum, resulting against interests raises crucial theoretical question: what extent does reflect characteristics vote? To disentangle meaning impact protest, we distinguish two dim...

The use of contingent valuation (CV) methods to estimate benefits has become increasingly common in project analysis. Ever since the NOAA Blue Ribbon Panel Report in 1993 (NOAA, 1993) recommended the use of the referendum form of CV, it seems to have become the method of choice in practical settings. Referendum-type questions are thought to be easier to answer than the open-ended variety. But t...

http://jpis.org On June 23, the citizens of the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU) through the referendum known popularly as Brexit. Mick Armstrong, the chair of the Principal Executive Committee of the British Dental Association (BDA), announced, “We did not take a position in this referendum.” However, it has become clear that Brexit does have specific implications for...