Menguji ‘Positive Legislature’ sebagai Kewenangan Mahkamah Konstitusi

Computers in the Legislature

Power in the US Legislature

Using a standard model of the US legislative system as a monotonic simple game, we look at rankings of the four types of players – the president, the vice president, senators, and representatives – induced by power indices. We show that regardless of the power index used, the president is always ranked above the other players, and a senator is always ranked above the vice president and a repres...

The Supreme Court as a Legislature

Judges and Legislature: Values into Law

The legislature gives effect to the values of democracy and compromise in a pluralist society, but the legislation it produces is mediated in its application by the values inherent in the legal culture into which it is received. The judges complete the law promulgated by Parliament by applying it. In articulating the common law also, the judges act within the bounds of objective standards suppl...

The Municipal Legislature in Novosibirsk , 1992 – 95

ystematic study of local politics in the Russian Federation has just begun. As a result, relatively little attention has been devoted to the legislative/representative bodies elected in many Russian cities during the 1990s.1 The following study of these institutions in Novosibirsk, an old industrial city in the geographic center of the Russian Federation, is based on the author’s direct observa...