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Ousting an executive leader from office doesn’t always have the intended effect, as these examples from Central and South America show.
Beijing’s plans for Hong Kong aren’t going down well with all its post-colonial subjects.
Laws that limit presidential power won’t enforce themselves – Congress must act.
A new bill gives the immigration minister a range of new powers that relate to various aspects of the citizenship acquisition process.
The rule of law can take on different meanings depending whom you ask and where you are – but in the US it pretty much means one thing.
Argentineans are determined to not forgive or forget the criminals who killed or disappeared more than 30,000 people.
South Africa’s social grants fiasco begs the question: was it orchestrated to undermine the judiciary and the constitution and hide sheer incompetence on the part of government?
South Africa’s Constitutional Court is in a fix. The only way to deliver social grants that support millions would be through a process that’s without validation, would be unlawful and invalid.
Torture is the ultimate abuse of state power over the individual. If the US returns to using it, all hell could break loose.
There’s a whole system of checks and balances in place to stop a president like Trump going too far.
South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority charged the country’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan and two of his former colleagues at the tax authority, Ivan Pillay and Oupa Magashule, with fraud last…
It’s easy for foreign businesses in China to misstep when they don’t understand the lack of a rule of law and the influence of the government.
The electorate and those involved in public governance should focus more on how judges are appointed. This is because they need to make sure that individuals of the highest quality get the job.
The fact that businesses cannot accurately calculate the cost of doing business in Nigeria because of corruption makes them jittery.But it doesn’t mean Nigeria is more corrupt than any other country.
Tensions are probably inevitable in any constitutional democracy that empowers the courts to overrule the executive and legislature. But, judges are worried cabinet undermines the rule of law.
The ICC has not lived up to its noble intentions of making the world more just. Its failure echoes that of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which set out to banish wars and to settle disputes peacefully.
Governance indicators have become essential for policy formation and political decision-making, helping us make sense of the messy social world, manage and govern it.
Only three of the original 63 clauses remain in force today, but the legacy of Magna Carta runs much deeper.
Memories of the killing of Osama bin Laden are fading, but the legacies of al-Qaeda and the war on terror’s many ‘own goals’ haunt us in the form of multiplying threats and lost civil liberties.
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