How does the gender composition of deliberative committees affect citizens’ evaluations their decision-making processes? Do citizens perceive decisions made by gender-balanced, legislative bodies as more legitimate than those all-male bodies? Extant work on link between women’s descriptive representation and perceptions democratic legitimacy in advanced democracies finds equal presence women le...

The article studies the problem of comprehensibility modern legal language Russian Federation from point view an ordinary citizen. authors define a concept law linguistic level and summarize existing theories concerning adaptation. Two technical methods addressing to federal executive bodies are discussed compared. It is highlighted that imperfection texts within aspect directly related uncerta...

The article presents various points of view existing in the scientific literature on concept “public power”. When considering them, author identifies and justifies two stages: before adoption Constitution Russian Federation 1993 after amendments to it July 2020. At first stage, public power was identified with state power. second term power” Russia is used as a generalizing that includes bodies...

This chapter covers the fundamental roles played by public authorities in prevention of chemical accidents. In this chapter, term “public authorities” includes wide range government bodies at local, regional and national levels that are responsible for environmental protection, health, occupational health safety, civil defence, emergency response other aspects accident prevention, preparedness ...

Coherence and alignment of the legislative language highly contribute to the quality of legislative processes, to the clarity of legislative texts and to their accessibility. DALOS aims at ensuring that legal drafters and decision-makers have control over the multilingual language of European legislation, and over the linguistic and conceptual issues involved in its transposition at national le...

In this publication, the author identifies main problems that occur in prosecutor’s practice when supervising execution of laws licensing system. It is established mentioned are associated with insufficient legislative regulation sphere, particular, distinguishes into theoretical, applied and practical ones. The most common types offenses committed by competent state bodies local self-governmen...