A Supremely Complex Decision
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by Dwight Newman
3h ago
On March 28, 2024, a majority decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation held that Canada’s constitutional bill of rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (“the Charter”), applied against an Indigenous government’s residency requirements for election to the government’s Council.  However, the majority also held that a section of the Charter that offers some protective effect for Indigenous governments would protect this residency requirement from a challenge under the Charter.  It thus sought to establish a ..read more
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Paradoxien und Anpassungsbedarf im BVerfGG
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by Hermann Heußner
6h ago
Die Diskussion um ein Parteiverbot ist begleitet von politischen Bedenken vor allem hinsichtlich eines Scheiterns, das bei einem Antrag gegen die Gesamtpartei zumindest nicht ausgeschlossen werden kann. Möglicherweise kommt es demnächst zu einer Neubewertung bei der Einstufung der Bundespartei durch das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund der ausstehenden Berufungsentscheidung des OVG Münster, die nach der Fortsetzung des Verfahrens in diesem Jahr zu erwarten ist. Gefestigt ist nur, dass sich die Einstufung der AfD-Landesverbände als „gesichert rechtsextremistisc ..read more
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The Kovačević Case Revisited
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by Joseph Marko
6h ago
On 20 March 2023 the Council of the European Union gave Bosnia and Hercegovina (BiH) green light to start accession negotiations. However, despite this political endorsement, BiH must fulfill the conditionality criteria, including a series of six judgments by the ECtHR relating to the predetermined ethnic keys for the Presidency and the House of Peoples, the second chamber of the Parliamentary Assembly, following from the Dayton constitution in combination with the respective rules of the Election Law of BiH.1) The last case, Kovačević v. BiH, 29 August 2023, was referred to the Grand Chamber ..read more
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Power and Distribution in Global Health Governance
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by Jelena von Achenbach
6h ago
Since at least the 1980s, private actors and market-based mechanisms have played an increasingly important role in the provision of public goods and services and the pursuit of public policy objectives in general. A market approach is also widely used in the field of public health. In countries around the world, various aspects of public health, such as health insurance, services and medical goods, are to be provided by the market and are subject to market forces, with varying degrees of regulation and oversight. Overall, it is often assumed that leaving things to the ´market´ will increase ef ..read more
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Keine Spielchen mehr mit den verdeckten Stimmzetteln
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by Frank Decker
6h ago
Viele der Maßnahmen, die jetzt erwogen werden, um sich gegen das Szenario einer schrittweisen Machtübernahme der rechtsextremen AfD zu wappnen, betreffen das Parlamentsrecht. So wichtig und richtig es ist, den automatischen Zugriff der AfD auf diese Ämter zu beschränken oder Blockademöglichkeiten zu minimieren, so merkwürdig bleibt, dass in der Debatte ein Aspekt regelmäßig ausgeklammert bleibt, der die Durchführung der Wahlen betrifft. Gemeint ist die die Bestimmung, dass die Abstimmung „mit verdeckten Stimmzetteln“, also geheim, zu erfolgen hat. So ist es für die Wahl der Ministerpräsidenten ..read more
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Beyond the Blocs
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by Itamar Mann
1d ago
On Monday, 25 March, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and the immediate release of hostages, as well as emphasizing the need to increase the provision and distribution of humanitarian aid. The Resolution was adopted 14-0, with the United States the only member to abstain. As the Security Council website announces, this Resolution ended a “months-long deadlock”. The recent Resolution is not perceived by Israeli actors as binding. And yet, I argue that the fact that the US and Russia are now essentially voting together on the need to end this war could l ..read more
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Closing the Accountability Gap
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by Tine Hanrieder
1d ago
Consultants have been described as wizards – superior analytical minds who can turn around businesses – but also as pretenders who sell management fads and quasi-academic insights to businesses and governments. In the World Health Organization (WHO), one of our interviewees also described them as ‘priests’ – companies that are hired to transform the organization on the basis of the ‘bible’ – the organizational strategy. Yet, this neutral, detached image as a technical servant to a public organization is misleading. Rather, as we describe in our study of consulting firm engagement at WHO, consu ..read more
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Rejecting Lip Service or Validating 1930s Family Values?
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by Maebh Harding
1d ago
On 8th March 2024, the Irish people rejected two separate constitutional referendums on family and care in an overwhelming no vote. These amendments aimed to update a conservative and gendered ideal of family found in Article 41. The rejection of both amendments reverses a voting trend towards a more socially inclusive Ireland seen by overwhelming yes votes for constitutional changes to allow abortion rights in 2018 and equal marriage rights in 2015. But in these previous referendums the constitution presented a clear barrier to immediate legal reforms. The family and care referendums inv ..read more
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Towards Equity and Decolonization?
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by Lilli Hasche
2d ago
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed systemic problems in the global health system. It revealed that the global health system perpetuates global health inequalities rather than effectively reducing them: The international community, particularly the countries of the Global North, failed to make COVID-19 vaccines widely available to the populations of the world’s poorest countries. This blog debate takes stock of the reform debate about a just and decolonizing transformation of the health system. Bringing together scholars from various disciplines, the contributions of this debate ask what a fair glob ..read more
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Delegitimation durch Verfahren
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by Michael Koß
2d ago
Oft firmiert die Annahme, dass soziale Ungleichheit politisch umso umstrittener sei, je weiter die Angleichung zwischen den verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen vorangeschritten ist, nach ihrem Entdecker als das Tocqueville-Paradox. Im Hinblick auf ein mögliches Verbotsverfahren gegen die AfD ließe sich weniger bildungsbürgerlich, aber durchaus treffend auf ein „Herr Tur Tur-Paradox“ verweisen. Ähnlich wie der Scheinriese aus dem Kinderbuch Michael Endes wirkt das Instrument des Parteiverbots aus der Entfernung sehr imposant – und schnurrt dann aber immer mehr zusammen, je besser sich die ..read more
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