THE BUDGET DEFICIT of the federal government has emerged as a central focus in American public policy debate, attracting anxious attention from a variety of constituencies. The left now raises the specter of enlarged deficits in opposition to the increasingly audible calls for tax reduction, while the right continues to cite the same threat against new government spending initiatives. In either...

This article presents an analysis of the behavior of federal representatives in the Brazilian House of Representatives between 1995 and 1998, when a series of constitutional amendments were presented by the president to be voted on by Congress. The objective is to show that the lack of a stable government coalition resulted in costs to society that were not anticipated by the government. The st...

due to the british hegemony of iran in both pre- and post-constitutional revolutionary periods (1906-1911), the iranian legal system was expected to be influenced by british common law following the establishment of the modern government after the revolution. but it did not happen for various legal and non-legal reasons. a major legal reason could be iranians’ long history of acquaintance with ...

occurance of social movements in egypt and other countries in the middle east and north africa, and their demonstrative impacts lead to attentions of analysts. in this article by different approach, the authors try to explain the chractristics and the nature of late social movement in egypt and breakdown of mubarak government in the framework of late theories of social movement and john fouran ...

Economics of Constitutional Games This study inquiries into the possibility of emergence of a constitutional arrangement. It concentrates both on bilateral and multilateral games resulting into a constitutional contract. For 2-person and n-person setting, the author specifies conditions under which a contract, either complete or incomplete, can be agreed upon. A simple version of a constitution...

This article examines the constitutional allocation of power over primary and secondary education in Australia, place protection for freedom religion or belief (FoRB) Australian government religious non-government schools. provides both an overview judicial treatment constitutional, legislative, common law FoRB a consideration emerging issues schools, suggesting that courts may soon be required...

Our article analyzes whether the federal government may constitutionally supplant a traditional system of common-law trials before state judges and juries with new federal institutions designed by statute for compensating victims of medical injuries. Specifically, this article examines the federal constitutional issues raised by various proposals to replace traditional medical malpractice litig...