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Constitution
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TL;DR: The authors examines possible theories of the balance of powers and rejects them all as unworkable and normatively questionable, and argues that judges and scholars should abandon the balance-of-powers metaphor and instead address directly whether bureaucratic innovation is likely to improve policy outcomes.
Abstract: Balance-of-powers arguments are ubiquitous in judicial opinions and academic articles that address separation-of-powers disputes over the president’s removal authority, power to disregard statutes, authority to conduct foreign wars, and much else. However, the concept of the balance of powers has never received a satisfactory theoretical treatment. This essay examines possible theories of the balance of powers and rejects them all as unworkable and normatively questionable. Judges and scholars should abandon the balance-of-powers metaphor and instead address directly whether bureaucratic innovation is likely to improve policy outcomes.
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TL;DR: Correa's hyper-plebiscitary presidency as mentioned in this paper is characterized by recurrent appeals to public opinion and special elections that enhance the legitimacy of the executive at the expense of congress.
Abstract: With the election of Rafael Correa in 2006, Ecuador joined the ranks of Latin American countries that have taken the "Left Turn" in national politics. Correa views his presidency as an opportunity to effect profound political change by convoking a constituent assembly to write a new constitution. In the course of campaigning for the constituent assembly, Correa constructed a powerful hyper-plebiscitary presidency—a mode of governance marked by the president’s recurrent appeals to public opinion and special elections that enhances the legitimacy of the executive at the expense of congress. Using the informal and formal powers of his office, Correa was able to govern "over the heads" of existing institutions and greatly debilitate what remained of the political opposition.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors make a critical intervention in current theoretical debates around asylum and make a critique of the ways in which theory appropriates the figure of the asylum-seeker.
Abstract: Questions of asylum and immigration have taken centre stage in national and international debate and figure prominently in the domestic political agendas of wealthy states and nations. In Australia, Europe and the US, harsh and punitive asylum and immigration laws are being enacted incrementally and asylum-seekers are subject increasingly to detention. Through a focus on the detention of asylum-seekers in the UK, this article makes a critical intervention in current theoretical debates around asylum.Focusing on the writing of Giorgio Agamben, this article suggests that within political and cultural theory, there has been a turn to the figure of the asylum-seeker (and the refugee) as a trope for theorizing the political constitution of the present. By opening up a critical dialogue between humanitarian, media studies and abstract theoretical accounts of immigration detention, this article produces a critique of the ways in which theory appropriates the figure of the asylum-seeker.
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TL;DR: Despite a growing body of work across the social and cognitive sciences concerned with the relations between inanimate objects and sociality, we still have relatively little understanding of the relationship between objects and their sociality as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Despite a growing body of work across the social and cognitive sciences concerned with the relations between inanimate objects and sociality, we still have relatively little understanding of the wa...
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: One body, two funerals orations of the dead silences of the living living bodies and their knowledge the productions of culture the constitution of an African state Owino Misiani's lamentation, 1987 as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: One body, two funerals orations of the dead silences of the living living bodies and their knowledge the productions of culture the constitution of an African state Owino Misiani's lamentation, 1987.
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