The Regulation of Interest Groups and Public Benefit Organizations in Long-Lived Democracies

2018 ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Nicole Bolleyer
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
Empirical Assessment ◽  
Cross Country

This chapter presents a detailed empirical assessment of cross-country variation in the regulation of interest groups and public benefit organizations in the stages of organizational formation and dissolution across nineteen long-lived democracies. More specifically, it covers constitutional rights, ban regulations, and legal incorporation. On that basis, it assesses differences between non-profit (NPO) regulation and the regulation of public benefit organizations (PBO regulation). The analysis stresses the importance of ‘legal inclusiveness’—that is, NPO regulation applying to public benefit organizations as well as the entanglement between NPO and PBO regulation reflecting the blurred boundary between the types of organizations such legal regulation applies to.

The Regulation of Interest Groups and Public Benefit Organizations

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-164
Author(s):  
Nicole Bolleyer
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
Empirical Assessment ◽  
Legal Restrictions ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Tax Benefits ◽  
Lobby Regulation

This chapter presents a detailed empirical assessment of cross-country variation in the regulation of interest groups and public benefit organizations in the operation stage—covering the regulation of these organizations’ constitutive functions as well as of resource access—across nineteen long-lived democracies. Regarding regulation of organizations’ constitutive functions, it covers areas such as lobby regulation, third-party regulation, and other legal restrictions on groups’ political activities. In terms of resource regulation, it covers aspects such as tax benefits for donors and organizations themselves as well as the regulation of fundraising. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the monitoring and supervision structures in charge of implementing group regulation. The analysis shows how interest groups and public benefit organizations have to operate within a complex web of legal regulation, which fundamentally affects their ability to engage in political activities and access state resources.

The Legal Regulation of Organized Civil Society

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-32
Author(s):  
Nicole Bolleyer
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
National Studies ◽  
Cross National

This introduction specifies the central questions addressed in this study—namely, what are the legal environments (as constituted by binding legal regulation) that have been created in long-lived democracies to steer the behaviour of membership-based, voluntary organizations—interest groups, parties, and public benefit organizations—that constitute organized civil society? And why do democracies adopt more or less constraining regulation in this sphere, in which state intervention is generally considered contentious? Having done so, it addresses three fundamental issues stressing the importance of these themes: first, why bother writing a book-length study on the legal regulation of voluntary organizations in particular? Second, why not focus on one particular type of organization (for example, interest groups or parties), as earlier cross-national studies have done? And, finally, what do we gain substantially and analytically by comparing the nature of legal regulation not only across a variety of countries but also across distinct organizational types and why focus on the three types of interest groups, parties, and public benefit organizations and not others?

Medico-Social Examination: the Modern Aspects of Legal Regulation

10.12737/5942 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Разиньков ◽  
D. Razinkov ◽  
Михайлов ◽  
I. Mikhaylov ◽  
Михайлова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Traditional Classification

In article the legislative base, which is the foundation of functioning of the state system of medical-social examination, is considered and analyzed. The questions of legal regulation of the state activity in the sphere of social policy concerning disabled people are discussed. The methods of sociological research and logical analysis of literature and official normatively-legal papers, being the basis of activity of the system of medico-social examination and sphere of giving to the invalids the equal with other citizens possibilities in realization of constitutional rights and freedoms, public welfare and establishment, are applied to the invalids as the measures of government support. In conclusions the emphasis is placed on need of carrying out radical restructurings for system of medico-social examination. It is offered to modify the existing classification of indexes of health and indexes, related to the health taking into account the socio-economic, climatic and other features; to strength the control of execution of government programs in the medico-social sphere; to modify the traditional classification of groups of disability; to change a way of features accounting of disabled people with various functional violations proceeding from a complex assessment of dysfunction of the neuro-physiological and psycho-physiological statuses; to use the innovative technologies of diagnostics, treatment, rehabilitation in correction of the functional violations with taking in mind not only the nosologic group of disease, but by an individual approach.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF LEGAL REGULATION OPERATIONAL AND INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE EXECUTION OF NON-CUSTODIAL SENTENCES: ANALYSIS OF LEGISLATION AND PRACTICE

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-111
Author(s):  
S.A. Kutukov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Organizational Problem ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Executive System ◽  
Legal Grounds ◽  
Tools And Methods

The article is devoted to the improvement of operational-search legislation in the field of organization of operational-search activities in the criminal Executive system, in particular, the grounds and conditions for conducting operational-search activities that restrict the constitutional rights of citizens, as well as their conduct in relation to those sentenced to non-custodial sentences. The main legal and organizational problem is the lack of legal grounds for conducting operational search activities that require court approval when conducting search work and, as a result, the inability to use the entire set of tools and methods for solving crimes, as well as an incorrect interpretation of article 18.1 of the criminal code of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals EFFICIENCY OF STATE REGULATORY POLICY IN THE PERIOD OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC: ADMINISTRATIVE-LEGAL ASPECT

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-100
Author(s):  
Оleksandr Makarenko ◽  
◽  
Nataliia Makarenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
Business Entities

The main scientific and practical results of the analysis of the legitimacy of the actions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine during the introduction of anti-epidemic measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic are presented. The peculiarities of exercising the Constitutional rights of citizens and the possibility of restricting them in a lawful manner, the risks of corruption as a result of the introduction of certain restrictions by the government and the creation of grounds for abuse of power and official duties have been studied. It is proposed to introduce a compensation mechanism for business entities to minimize financial losses and mitigate the tax burden at the local government level, as well as options for legal regulation of the relevant activities of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as a central executive body. Established that in the current legislation, namely in the Constitution of Ukraine, there is only one way to restrict the rights of citizens who can only be implemented through a mechanism for adopting a special law or amendments to the current laws. It is proved that to ensure effective and transparent administrativelegal regulation of state regulatory policy during the implementation of anti-epidemic measures to combat the COVID-19 requires the improvement of individual laws and subordination regulations that will in detail the activities of representatives of power and law enforcement agencies during detection and fixing offenses, otherwise it will create the basis for the emergence of corruption relations and commit criminal offenses with simultaneous leveling of the effectiveness of anti-epidemic measures. According to the authors, it is advisable to predict the need for automatic introduction of certain compensation measures at the level of regions, subject to the introduction (continuation or introduction) of anti-epidemic measures to combat the COVID-19. It is confirmed that in the event of improving the relevant legal acts, the risk of corrupt legal relations will be reduced, increased quality of state regulatory policy during the introduction of anti-epidemic measures to combat the COVID-19 and created universal compensation measures for small and medium-sized businesses that will be able to quickly and effectively applied in a country's scale.

Some aspects of legal regulation in international law: human rights protection issues

2020 ◽  
pp. 479-495
Author(s):  
Madiyar N. Umbetov ◽  
Ermek Nurmaganbet ◽  
Kairat T. Bitemirov ◽  
Nursultan B. Kalkashev ◽  
Zhaksylyk R. Yeslamgaliyev
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Commonwealth Of Independent States ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Model Of Practice

The relevance of the topic of the article is confirmed by the tendencies and dy-namics of the internal development of modern democratic states, the need for a comprehensive theoretical and legal study of the effectiveness of the practice of law in the mechanism of ensuring the constitutional rights of citizens. In the context of this, the aim of the article was to carry out a comprehensive comparative analysis of the legal regulation of practice of law in the territories of the Member States of the European Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The author's developments and conclusions resulting from scientific and legal research are summarised as follows: international and national law consolidates different approaches to the practice of law; the legal regulation of the process of entering into the profession of lawyer and the subsequent exercise of his lawyer's activity in the territory of the European Union has more detailed elaboration in the context of the realities of modern legal relations in comparison with Commonwealth of Independent States countries; a comparative analysis showed that a model of practice of law, regulated by the legislation of the French Republic, can be considered the most approximate to the idealistic.

Using Web 2.0 to Reconceptualize E-Government

2012 ◽  
pp. 1824-1837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Sadeghi ◽  
Steve Ressler ◽  
Andrew Krzmarzick
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Share Information ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the growing literature on e-government and Web 2.0 with particular attention to online collaborative platforms, such as GovLoop, that complement government. The authors present a thorough background to the topic of Web 2.0 in e-government and present numerous examples of how these technologies are used across government both in the U.S. and globally. This chapter explores two main areas: first, how Web 2.0 and social media are being used as a vehicle to enhance e-government, and second, to present a case study of GovLoop, which is a collaborative social media platform designed to complement the work of government. GovLoop provides those working within and external to government—citizens, government employees, academics, non-profit professionals and contractors—with the ability to share information and collaborate on issues of public benefit. The chapter presents a starting point for future research on how Web 2.0 is changing the very nature of e-government and service delivery, and how governments are in a unique position to utilize these tools to expand collaboration and openness with their communities.

scholarly journals P032: ISAEM and the push for emergency medicine worldwide

CJEM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (S1) ◽  
pp. S89-S89
Author(s):  
G. Dashi ◽  
H.A. Puls ◽  
R. Ostervig ◽  
O. Shu ◽  
A. Huynh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The World ◽  
International Projects ◽  
To Come

Introduction: The International Student Association of Emergency Medicine (ISAEM) is a non-profit organization composed of medical students and student groups who believe that everyone deserves high-quality emergency care. Our aim is to promote and foster the concept, philosophy, and art of Emergency Medicine (EM). More specifically, we seek to 1) create an international network of medical students interested in EM, 2) support EM Interest Groups (EMIGs) and medical students in accomplishing their goals, 3) call for the recognition of EM as an independent specialty in countries where it does not exist, 4) help medical students learn, practice, and advance EM in countries where it is already established, and 5) carry out international projects for the benefit of medical students interested in EM. Methods: ISAEM tries to accomplish its goals primarily by connecting interested medical students and EMIGs with each other, as well as with EM professionals and organizations around the world. Additionally, we support medical students and EMIGs financially, offer them extensive benefits through a free membership, represent their local interests through our National Ambassadors, and advocate on their behalf at the local, national, and international level. Results: ISAEM’s membership base is rapidly growing and our organization is currently represented by students in over 20 countries. In areas where the specialty of EM is not yet recognized, such as in Cameroon, ISAEM helped create the first EMIG and assists students with local projects. In countries where EM is new, such as Brazil, ISAEM helps students discover, explore, and advance this specialty. In countries where EM is thriving, like Canada, ISAEM offers students academic and personal opportunities to advance their careers and the specialty of EM internationally. Additionally, with the help of EM leaders worldwide, ISAEM has recently launched the FOAMed (Free Open Access Medical education) Translation Project and the International Observership Program. In the future, we aim to offer students international research, clinical, and mentorship programs, as well as more financial support. Conclusion: ISAEM is the international voice of medical student interested in promoting access to and expertise in emergency medical services worldwide. Through international collaboration, we hope to create an extensive network that will benefit medical students and the specialty of Emergency Medicine for many years to come.

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