Athenians did not believe that they had anything to learn from the bureaucraticmonarchiesof the East, which were incompatible with Greek notions ofcitizenship. Ifself-defensenecessitated that citizens be required to fight for theirpoliswhen called on, in return each had to be conceded some measure...
In the United Kingdom and other countries whose form of government is based on the Westminster model, a vote on a major piece of legislation may be treated as a vote of confidence. Many other countries with parliamentary forms of government allow for formal votes of confidence or censure. In...
And so in 1983 Congress established a Social Security benefit rule called the Government Pension Offset (GPO). The GPO reduces the Social Security spousal supplement paid to a retiree with a non-covered pension by two thirds of the pension’s amount. …the Social Security Fairness Act would re...
To complement the primary search, a secondary search was conducted of the websites associated with each department using Google’s site search function. This function allows the user to search any indexed site or document for the specified search terms within a specific domain (e.g., the Depart...
Also, within the United Kingdom through wide discussion and agreement across the geological community, England and Scotland have both produced a ‘Geodiversity Charter’ (Geodiversity Charter for England, 2014;Scotland’s Geodiversity Charter, 2012) with an aim to widen understanding of the importanc...
Belgium government collapses, divided over Dutch/French self-rule; King holds talks The article reports on the collapse of Iceland's government on January 26, 2009 after Prime Minister Geir Haarde called for early elections amid popular ir... R Wielaard 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Economic and Welfare...
the presence of an international body – the IAEA – which provides a pseudogovernance function for the industry and has no comparison with other forms of power generation or infrastructure. This set of rules, coupled with the presence of the IAEA, provides lenders with a benchmark for assessing...
A draft was written while I was a visitor at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford, in 1979, and I benefited greatly from discussions with many people there. I presented part of the text in a paper called “Private Government and Functionalist and Marxist Theories of ...
King Vajiralongkorn Show More Siam, as Thailand was officially called until 1939, was never brought under European colonial domination. Independent Siam was ruled by anabsolute monarchyuntil a revolution there in 1932. Since that time, Thailand has been aconstitutional monarchy, and all subsequent con...
The golden rule that goes deep into ancient history has a more modern incarnation—the golden rule of government spending. This concept believes that future generations shouldn't be burdened with debt incurred by governments for current-day expenditures that long predate them. Instead, it decrees, ...