Dhaka is one of the fastest growing megacities of the world with a dense population over 15 million. Being the capital of a developing country like Bangladesh, it is experiencing multi-dimensional problems such as over urbanization, traffic congestion, water logging, solid waste disposal, black smoke from brick kilns and industrial emissions, sound pollution, pollution of water bodies by indust...

This paper interprets the British legislative process that initiated the first comprehensive national regulation of embryo research and fertility services and examines subsequent efforts to restrain the assisted reproduction industry. After describing and evaluating British regulatory measures, I consider successive failures to control the assisted reproduction industry in the US. I discuss dis...

Parliamentary and Presidential Democracies: Which One is Best? With the exception of the United States, where a system of separation of executive and legislative powers exists, all countries that are considered to be stable democracies adopt a constitution that is, at least partially, parliamentary. A parliamentary constitution is characterized by the fusion of executive and legislative powers,...

The extent to which groups are involved in the legislative process and legislator decisionmaking is of interest to legislative scholars, but difficult to empirically study because of the private information exchanges between legislator and group. This article exploits a reporting institution in the California state legislature to explore group involvement in the policymaking process and legisla...

The article reveals the essence of organizational and legal basis activity pretrial investigation bodies. scientific conclusions regarding pre-trial bodies were analyzed. main areas research scientists who at various stages engaged in study problems related to general characteristics foundations studied. It is substantiated that principles activities determine dynamics implementation goals thes...

What determines the success by which heads of government can enact their legislative proposals? Presumably, constitutional rules governing the relationship between executives and legislatures should be part of the answer. We suggest that in order to understand an executive’s leverage in legislative bargaining, one must consider a broad set of formal powers, even those that are not directly rela...