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Instead, norms of proper political behavior must become embodied in the polity’s enduring institutions – its political parties, parliaments, and courts – in order to prevent abuse of power.
Deficient education, infrastructure, security, and courts, together with endemic corruption and scant entrepreneurial dynamism, militate against excessive optimism.
Even in the most advanced and affluent societies, a vast concentrated effort is needed to preserve even minimal decency: think of locks, security alarms, police, courts, and prisons.
This helps explain the intense corruption present in Afghan courts, where “honor” can be redeemed by bribing a judge to have a rapist or murderer released.
Guantanamo was selected as the site to imprison them in a deliberate--and successful--effort to prevent American civilian courts asserting their jurisdiction.
Old societies have customs and traditions; new ones have courts and legislatures.
The litigation is now in America’s courts.
As the chief petitioner in her case, I have sought justice in Guatemala's courts for nearly 12 years.
The courts' actions represent Guatemala's first effort to bring high military officials to trial.
We have taken the struggle from the technical, legal, and political arena closer to a hearing in the courts.
Are courts honest and impartial in their judgments?
Investors, it is thought, need clear rules and effective courts.
But, compelling as this logic seems, Brazil’s rise does not confirm it: financial and economic growth was not preceded by – or even accompanied by – fundamental improvements in courts and contracts.
Brazilian courts were reputed in 2000 to handle investors’ lawsuits slowly and poorly, and they are reputed to handle them slowly and poorly today.
If courts are not protecting investors, is something else?New, important stock-exchange rules have strengthened outside investors’ confidence, though only for new companies.
In the absence of reliable courts, they cannot sue to enforce their rules.
Commercial arbitration – and courts’ obligations to enforce the arbitrators’ decisions – can assure investors, even if the courts generally do not.
Similarly, other senior officials have called for new restrictions on cases that the ECHR may hear, including deferral to those national courts which have supposedly taken full account of European human-rights law.
Now international war crimes tribunals have been created for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia, national courts have indicted despots from other countries, and a permanent International Criminal Court will soon be established.
The Chilean courts allowed these cases to proceed by stripping Pinochet of his parliamentary immunity and endorsing a legal theory to bypass the amnesty.
That a small centrist party may now get the courts to postpone the election merely adds to the usual confusion.
Donald Trump and a World of DistrustWASHINGTON, DC – A crisis of public confidence in civic institutions – including governments, legislatures, courts, and the media – is a central factor in the rise of Donald Trump and figures like him around the world.
Democratic Resilience for a Populist AgeBERLIN – The enemies of open, liberal societies have gained disconcerting influence in recent years, demonstrated most recently by the Polish government’s bid to place the country’s courts under political control.
After massive protests, Polish President Andrzej Duda vetoed two of the three bills that sought to curtail the courts’ independence.
In fact, some EU leaders’ approaches to issues like immigration are threatening to create systemic problems that will endure long after Trump has returned to a life of golf courses and bankruptcy courts.
In the 1860’s and 1870’s, they were appalled at how publishers boosted newspaper circulation by reporting on divorce courts (and the scandalous behavior of individual politicians).
But Parliament and courts always returned over time to the core British value of free speech and expression.
The supremacy of European law commands the support of national governments and enforcement by national courts.
If the government could help break this logjam, in a fashion similar to the manner in which courts expedite corporate bankruptcy, the benefits could be large.
He appoints judges to high courts and members to the Higher Educational Council (YOK).
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