Interim Governance Arrangements: Comparative Principles and Practice for Myanmar
This brief sets out some comparative principles and practices of interim governance arrangements, which are a device often used to…
Type: Briefs/Notes
Myanmar’s Federal Democracy Charter: Analysis and Prospects
The Brief is intended for key stakeholders interested and/or participating in Myanmar’s return to democracy and to enable a better…
Limitation Clauses
This document examines limitation clauses as enabling constitutional rights to be partially limited, to a specified extent and for certain…
Local Democracy
This document examines local democracy as the self-government of cities, towns, villages and districts by democratic means—typically, but not exclusively,…
Judicial Tenure, Removal, Immunity and Accountability
This Primer covers the rules governing the tenure, immunity, discipline and removal of judges in constitutional democracies. In particular, it…
Legal Approaches to Responding to Emergencies: Covid-19 as a Case Study
This document examines the use and non-use of state of emergency powers by countries across Asia and the Pacific in…
The Integrity of Political Finance Systems in Central and Eastern Europe: Tackling Political Corruption
This policy brief draws provides a comparative overview of political finance regulations in 16 Central and Eastern European countries.
Implementing Federalism
This document explains why any change from a centralized to a federal or devolved system is a significant one. It…
Inclusion of Combatants in Constitution-Building
This document examines the rationales for including combatants in constitution-building, the challenges this presents and some of the mechanisms that…
Independence in Electoral Management
This document focuses on the establishment of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) as institutions normatively, structurally and functionally independent from government.…