Seeking to explain the difficult cases of delayed democratic transition in theWestern Balkans, recent literature argues that ‘national identity’ significantly limits the effectiveness of external actors’ political conditionality. This argument is tested in this article by investigating Serbia’s co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was dem...

Different theories have been developed, mainly in the context of the United States, to explain judicial decision-making. In this respect, there is an important ongoing debate over whether judges are guided by the law or by personal ideology. The analysis of the decision-making in the Polish Constitutional Tribunal seems to support the existence of some party alignment. It is to say that judicia...

in 2010, the united states adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the affordable care act (aca). implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. the controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most u.s. cit...

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spanglish, a hybrid form of english and spanish especially popular among young people, is one of the most striking ways two of the world’s most widely used languages are evolving in response to immigration and globalization. generally, this article calls attention to any fundamental question about spanglish: if the bilingualism, and here, specifically, spanglish, is a natural result of the coex...