Reopening the administrative procedure

The Role of Judicial Procedure Courts in the Development of Iranian Administrative Law

 Today, in leading administrative law systems, the judicial process along with the law is the most important source of legal rules, and the law alone can not feed the legal system. Although in the administrative law system of Iran, the use of judicial procedure has often been considered as a source and interpretation of the law and not as the main source, but the role of administrative courts, ...

Golden Anniversary: The Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, A

The Political Economy of State-level Administrative Procedure Acts*

One of the most important developments in theories of American bureaucracy has been the claim that organizational procedures that are enacted by public officials have a significant impact on the nature of both bureaucratic control and performance. This development has been accompanied, however, by limited empirical investigation. We address this gap by examining the conditions under which admin...

Validating abortion procedure coding in Canadian administrative databases

BACKGROUND The British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Health collects abortion procedure data in the Medical Services Plan (MSP) physician billings database and in the hospital information Discharge Abstracts Database (DAD). Our study seeks to validate abortion procedure coding in these databases. METHODS Two randomized controlled trials enrolled a cohort of 1031 women undergoing abortion. The res...

Electronic Government: Perspectives and Pitfalls of Online Administrative Procedure

Today, Electronic Government not only means to provide information for citizens on the web, but handle their requests for legal decisions online. Although this might primarily be seen as a technical revolution, it is argued here that this change potentially has major effects on the current legal architecture of administrative procedure as a whole, thereby generating social and political questio...