this study examines the mediating role of sense of powerlessness on the relationship between the perception of accountability and citizenship participation among the students of university of tehran. lack of proper accountability can lead to a sense of powerlessness for students to influencing the processes and cause them no incentive to provide cooperation. accordingly, accountability variable...

The subject of this study is the current political and legal phenomenon, which “political aberration”. reveals content subject, considered, on one hand, as a manifestation nihilism, typical for actions public authorities structures within state due to their conscious or unconscious disregard norms international law, carried out in narrow corporate interests. On other it kind mechanism, weapon, ...

Over the past few years, scholars of global governance have paid increasing attention to the role of law and legalization in shaping the governance of global economic activity, focusing primarily on public international law and the institutions that articulate and enforce this law. In this paper, I shift the focus to the arena of private international law, particularly the dimension that concer...

Federal appellate judges cite cases by sister circuits. Why is that? Common wisdom holds that judges look to out-of-circuit cases for credible legal arguments -as persuasive precedent. But hard-core adherents of the attitudinal model (Segal and Spaeth 2002) – and certain cynical realists and critical legal studies scholars – might argue that judges decide in accordance with their policy or poli...