Economic and Institutional Determinants of the Rule of Law: A New Empirical Exploration

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-254
Author(s):  
Jacek Lewkowicz ◽  
Jakub Byler ◽  
Przemysław Litwiniuk
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Institutional Determinants

The rule of law has proved to be significant in economic and social development and the functioning of political systems. At the same time, determinants of the rule of law remain far from transparent. Our study focuses on a novel set of economic and institutional factors potentially shaping the rule of law. The quantitative research is based on econometric and machine-learning apparatus and covers a global sample of countries. The output of our study exposes the crucial role of the quality of the law, access to justice and impartial public administration to assure the rule of law. Apart from the contribution to the literature, our conclusions may be helpful for policymakers.

scholarly journals Has Albania's Economic Development Stalled? Investigating the Role of Institutional Factors in Albania's Economic Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Myslym Osmani ◽  
Kledi Kodra ◽  
Drini Salko
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Relative Growth ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Per Capita

This study focuses on the institutional factors of Albania's economic development, from a comparative, dynamic, and regional European perspective. We use longitudinal data for the years 2002, 2014, and 2019 and a small selection of 13 countries in the region and some EU member states. Descriptive statistics, graphical representation, and econometric modeling are used for data analysis. The purpose of the study is to discuss, in real and comparative terms with the region and beyond, the economic growth of Albania based on the GDP per capita indicator, as well as to identify and evaluate dynamically the role of institutions in the country's development through important institutional factors, such as the effectiveness of government, rule of law, corruption, etc. The analysis shows that Albania's economic performance is weakover the last two decades. This is reflected in the insufficient relative growth of GDP per capita, the small increase in per capita income, and especially in the low increase in income for every 1% of relative growth. In these indicators, Albania continues to be consistently in the lowest positions in the region and beyond. The study highlights the strong link between economic growth and the effectiveness of government, the rule of law, and weak control over corruption. Improving corruption control by one unit in the range (-2.5 to 2.5) is expected to improve GDP per capita by an average of about 2.2 times. Improving the rule of law by one point is expected to improve GDP per capita on average by about 2.4 times. The country's sluggish economic performance is mainly attributed to weak institutions.   Received: 4 March 2021 / Accepted: 6 May 2021 / Published: 8 July 2021

scholarly journals MENJEJAKI AKSES TERHADAP KEADILAN DALAM KONFLIK AGRARIA: STUDI PADA WARGA MORO-MORO REGISTER 45 MESUJI LAMPUNG

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oki Hajiansyah Wahab ◽  
Muhammad Ridho
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Judicial Decision ◽  
Simple Analysis ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Justice Process

Abstract: Agrarian conflictare inextricably linked to issues of injustice. There is a view that in equality in the agrarian conflicts can and should be resolved through legal measures, which were touted asthe establishmentand enforcement measures. By elaborating the idea of ​​access to justice within the framework of ROLAX and ROLGOM, as well as approach esthatare reviewed by the Theory access Ribot and Peluso, this paper seeks to study how access to justice can be achieve din agrarian conflicts. Of elaboration that access to justice can be the key to recovery in equalityin agrarian conflicts not only depend on the outcome of judicial decision simposing procedural-formal. The approach used is expected to read the constellation of the struggle for justice more broadly than just law enforcement measures and the establishment of formal, ie starting from the flow of benefits as well as the power relations that underliean access, to the quality of the legal system and achieving justice process based on the rule of law. With the scope of the analytical framework and approach, this paper focuses on the theoretical and conceptual depth. However this paperal so gives an over view and attempta simple analysis of the struggle of the Moro-moro citizens Register 45 Mesuji Lampung as acasestudy of the acquisition of access to justicein agrarian conflicts. Abstrak. Ada pandangan bahwa ketidakadilan dalam konflik agraria dapat diselesaikan melalui langkah yuridis sebagai langkah pembentukan dan penegakan hukum. Dengan mengelaborasi gagasan akses terhadap keadilan dalam kerangka Rolax dan Rolgom, serta pendekatan Teori Akses yang ditelaah oleh Ribot dan Peluso, tulisan ini berupaya untuk mempelajari bagaimana akses terhadap keadilan dapat dicapai dalam konflik agraria. Pendekatan yang digunakan diharapkan mampu membaca konstelasi perjuangan akan keadilan secara lebih luas daripada sekadar langkah pembentukan dan penegakan hukum formal, yaitu mulai dari adanya aliran manfaat serta relasi kekuasaan yang  mendasari sebuah akses, sampai kualitas perangkat dan sistem hukum dari prosesmenggapai keadilan berdasarkan prinsip negara hukum. Tulisan ini berfokus pada pendalaman secara teoritis dan konseptualnya, tetapi tulisan ini juga berusaha memberikan gambaran dan analisis sederhana mengenai perjuangan warga Moro-moro Register 45 Mesuji Lampung DOI: 10.15408/jch.v4i2.3599

scholarly journals Ensuring the Rule of Law in Public Administration and Local Self-Government

Lex Russica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
E. B. Ablaeva ◽  
A. R. Ensebaeva ◽  
M. A. Utanov
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Control Function ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Judicial Control ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
The Republic ◽  
State And Local

The paper examines the powers of the judiciary to ensure the rule of law in the sphere of public administration and local self-government, which, according to the authors, consist in the implementation of the judicial control function by the courts. Granting the judicial power with the function of judicial control and expanding the scope of its implementation is one of the mechanisms that, in conditions of ensuring the rule of law, are necessary in order for everyone to exercise their constitutional freedom to appeal to the court against illegal acts, decisions, actions or omissions of public authorities, their officials, and civil servants. It is obvious that the role of the judiciary is significantly enhanced in the implementation of the second institutional reform to ensure the rule of law. Today, the rule of law in the sphere of state and local government is ensured the implementation of judicial control by courts of general, specialized and higher jurisdiction, as well as specialized formulations courts of the Republic of Kazakhstan in accordance with the RK legislation on civil and criminal procedure and administrative offences. However, according to the study, administrative and judicial reforms carried out in parallel in the Republic of Kazakhstan have resulted, on the one hand, in strengthening judicial control in the sphere of state administration and local self-government, and, on the other hand, in restricting the constitutional right to judicial protection and freedom of appeal in court. According to the authors, the steps to optimize the courts, consisting in the transition from a five-level court to a three-level court, have not achieved their main goal-to simplify access to justice.

scholarly journals Finality of Judgments in Civil Cases and Related Considerations: The Experience of Ukraine and Lithuania

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 6-29
Author(s):  
Kostiantyn Gusarov ◽  
Viktor Terekhov
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Judicial Reform ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Public Role ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Judicial Economy

Finality of judgments is a concept that puts an end to the trial, prohibiting subsequent appeals, opening of new proceedings and disputing clearly established facts. Despite being promoted by the Council of Europe and its Court of Human Rights and familiar to most if not all states, its application still encounters misunderstanding in some Eastern European Countries. Deeply rooted ideas of substantive truth and public role of the judiciary, a rather idiosyncratic notion of fair trial and the rule of law all lead to underestimation of the role played by finality in a peaceful life of the society. This article addresses the experience of Ukraine (where a major judicial reform has just taken place) and Lithuania – two post-Soviet nations that both, still in their unique way, worked on implementing the principle of finality into their procedural order. The paper also explores an uneasy balance to be found between this notion and other relevant considerations (access to justice, rule of law, judicial economy and some other).

scholarly journals Institutional Determinants Of Assessing Energy Efficiency Gaps In The National Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-128
Author(s):  
Vladyslav Pavlyk
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Regulatory Activity ◽  
Energy Efficiency Gap ◽  
Institutional Determinants ◽  
Government Efficiency ◽  
Efficiency Gap

The article examines approaches to the analysis of factors that influence the difference between capacity and current energy production in the country, that is, the gap in energy efficiency in the economy. To investigate the main trends in the theory of energy efficiency and energy conservation, a bibliometric analysis was carried out (using VOSViewer v.1.6.10 toolkit), the object of which was 1428 scientific articles in publications indexed by the Scopus scientometric database. The analysis showed that in 2019, scientists published 1.5 times more work on the subject than in 2005, and revealed five clusters of scientists who investigated the problems of the connection between institutional determinants and lack of electricity in the country. The research hypothesis is to test the impact of institutional determinants on the energy efficiency gap in the economy. For the assessment of institutional determinants, such indicators of public administration effectiveness as: “rule of law”, “government efficiency”, “political stability and the absence of violence/terrorism”, “quality of regulatory activity” and “anti-corruption” have been used. The source of statistical information is the Worldwide Governance Indicator Global Eurojustice Reports and Eurostat data, the Pedroni co-integration test, and the least-squares method, the calculations were made using EViews 11. Objects of study are EU and Ukraine, the period for analysis – 2009-2018. The findings confirmed the statistically significant impact of institutional determinants on the energy efficiency gap in the economy: increasing government efficiency and political stability by 1 mind. units lead to a reduction in the energy efficiency gap of 0.47 and 0.54 dm. units in accordance. It has been empirically proven that improving the quality of regulatory activity and improving the rule of law in Ukraine is one mind. units cause energy efficiency gains of 0.34 and 0.41 dm. units in accordance. The results of the study can be used by state and local authorities to improve the country’s energy efficiency and energy efficiency systems. Keywords: energy balance, renewable energy sources, energy gap, corruption, quality of public administration, political stability, government efficiency, energy efficiency, energy conservation, institutional determinants.

7. Courts

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-213
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fisher ◽  
Bettina Lange ◽  
Eloise Scotford
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Different Types

Courts play an important role in environmental law. Among other things, they uphold the rule of law and adjudicate on the legal disputes that inevitably arise. This chapter explores the role of courts in environmental law. It outlines why courts are understood to be important in environmental law, what courts are, the different types of courts relevant to UK and EU environmental law, the importance of access to justice, and the actual and potential role of specialist environmental courts. Overall, what is apparent from this chapter is not only that the role of courts is an important one, but that it is also complex.

scholarly journals The Profession(s)’ Engagements with LawTech: Narratives and Archetypes of Future Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 6-26
Author(s):  
Lisa Webley ◽  
John Flood ◽  
Julian Webb ◽  
Francesca Bartlett ◽  
Kate Galloway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Descriptive Account ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
Legal Professional

This article argues that there are three narratives to technology’s role in augmenting, disrupting or ending the current legal services environment—each of which gives life to particular legal professional archetypes in how lawyers react to LawTech. In tracing these influential narratives and associated archetypes, we map the evolving role of LawTech, the legal profession and legal services delivery. The article concludes by proffering a further narrative of technology’s role in law known as ‘adaptive professionalism’, which emphasises the complex, contextual nature of the legal professional field. Through this normative rather than descriptive account it is suggested that the profession may access the benefits of technological developments while holding on to essential notions of ethical conduct, access to justice and the rule of law.

scholarly journals I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW: VIDEOCONFERENCE HEARINGS AND THE LEGAL LIMIT ON HOW TRIBUNALS ALLOCATE RESOURCES

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorne Sossin ◽  
Zimra Yetnikoff
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Political Preference ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The One

Videoconferencing has generated ambivalence in the legal community.Some have heralded its promise of unprecedented access to justice,especially for geographically remote communities. Others, however, havequestioned whether videoconferencing undermines fairness. The authorsexplore the implications of videoconferencing through the case studyof the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Tribunal, which is one of thebusiest adjudicative bodies in Canada. This analysis highlights concernsboth with videoconferencing in principle and in practice. While suchconcerns traditionally have been the province of public administration,the authors argue that a tribunal’s allocation of resources and thesuffi ciency of its budget are also core concerns of administrative law.Administrative law reaches beyond conventional doctrines of proceduralfairness on the one hand and substantive rationality on the other. Howthe legislature structures and funds decision-making bodies is not just amatter of political preference but also of legal suffi ciency. The commonlaw, the Charter of Rights, and unwritten constitutional principles suchas the rule of law and access to justice all provide potential constraintsboth on governments and tribunals as to the organization and conductof adjudicative hearings, especially in settings like the Landlord andTenant Tribunal, where the rights of vulnerable people are at stake.While a challenge to the videoconferencing practices of the Landlordand Tenant Tribunal has yet to be brought, the authors conclude thateventually the intersection of tribunal resources with the fairness andreasonableness of that tribunal’s decision-making will reach the courts.How the courts resolve these challenges may represent the next frontierof administrative law.La vidéoconférence a suscité de l’ambivalence au sein de la communautéjuridique. Certains ont proclamé sa promesse d’un accès sansprécédent à la justice, surtout pour les communautés géographiquementéloignées. D’autres, cependant, ont soulevé la question à savoir si lavidéoconférence mine l’équité. Les auteurs explorent les conséquencesde l’utilisation de la vidéoconférence en faisant une étude de cas duTribunal du logement de l’Ontario, un des organismes juridictionnelsles plus occupés au Canada. Cette analyse met en lumière despréoccupations en rapport avec la vidéoconférence en principe et enpratique. Quoique de telles préoccupations ont traditionnellement été du ressort de l’administration publique, les auteurs soutiennent quel’allocation des ressources par un tribunal et la suffi sance de son budgetsont également des préoccupations centrales du droit administratif.Le droit administratif va au delà des doctrines conventionnellesd’équité procédurale d’une part et de la rationalité substantive d’autrepart. La façon dont le législateur organise et fi nance les organismesdécideurs n’est pas simplement question de préférence politique maisaussi de suffi sance légale. Le common law, la Charte des droits etles principes constitutionnels non écrits tels que l’autorité de la loiet l’accès à la justice imposent tous des contraintes potentielles auxgouvernements et aux tribunaux quant à l’organisation d’audiencesadjudicatives et la façon de les mener, surtout dans un cadre tel que leTribunal du logement de l’Ontario, où sont en jeu les droits de gensvulnérables. Quoique les pratiques de vidéoconférence du Tribunaldu logement de l’Ontario n’aient pas encore été contestées, les auteursconcluent qu’éventuellement la conjoncture des ressources du tribunalet de l’équité et l’aspect raisonnable du processus de décision de cetribunal va parvenir à la cour. La façon dont les cours règleront cescontestations pourrait devenir le prochain domaine d’exploration dudroit administratif.*

The Local Public Administration towards the Measurements of Sustainability and the Cross-Border Cooperation

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-227
Author(s):  
Gabriela A. Popoviciu ◽  
Emanuela-Iulia Henț ◽  
Mircea-Sebastian Mancia ◽  
Aurora Mancia
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

AbstractThe execution of the reform in the public administration and its foundation on the democratic principles of the rule of law is an essential element of the economic-social reform in Romania. For this we have at hand the legal regulations of the European Charter from Torremolinos (May 20, 1983, Spain) and the Territorial Agenda of the U.E. (Leipzig, May 24-25, 2007). Those consist that territorial cohesion envisages a more special type of relationship, based on solidarity, such as solidarity between territories and regions, or between local and regional. This, according to the aforementioned regulations, should involve ensuring better living conditions and quality of life, oriented towards local and regional potential, regardless of where people live - either in the area of central Europe or on the outskirts of Europe. In this paper, we will start from Europe’s model, from its regions, from the possible cohesion between its territories, and we will focus mainly on the resources available to the cohesion of the inhabited areas of Romania. That is why, this paper attempts to present how, using the principles of organizing local authorities and authorities, means of cross-border cooperation can be established that will lead to a harmonization of interstate.

scholarly journals Access to remedy in transnational development projects: the need for effective and comprehensive remedy ecosystems

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-144
Author(s):  
Martijn Scheltema
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
General Stability ◽  
Democratic Systems

It is observed in the Introduction of this special issue that the rule of law has been an integral part of the development of democratic systems of government in national states and features powerfully within contemporary ‘good-governance’ promotion in the Global South by development financial institutions (DFIs). However, the rule of law is predominantly used to emphasise the importance of stability of contract and protection of property in connection with transnational development projects (TDPs) and does not so much focus on the general stability of (e.g. indigenous) rights, access to justice and fairness. Thus, it is important to deviate from a narrow interpretation of the rule of law and include the role of all types of actors in safeguarding this rule of law.

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