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The new body is part of President Macky Sall's agenda of constitutional reforms ahead of parliamentary elections in 2017 and the presidential vote in 2019.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB213316
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This comes as several states this year have passed legislation to restrict abortion with few exceptions and often not including incest or rape. This is partly an attempt to get…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB244650
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The delay of the polls to December 15 has provoked domestic, regional and Western criticism. The postponement was announced by President Macky Sall and endorsed by a parliamentary…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB285160
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The newly formed opposition and civil society alliance, the Movement for the Defense of Democracy (M2D), has questioned the independence and rationale for the Commission, given…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB260797
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Democrats have been counting on the Court’s decision, handed down in June but leaked in February, to help galvanise the party’s support base. However, household economic concerns…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB272561
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Absent the successful restructuring of the institution of the Supreme Court -- which would be major change and is therefore considered unlikely -- seating Barrett will solidify a…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB257127
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As President Joe Biden campaigns as leader of the Democratic Party ahead of November’s midterm elections, he will be preparing for the prospect of a Republican-controlled House…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB273122
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The ruling, the first on abortion since the Court returned to having a 5-4 conservative majority, has energised the abortion debate, especially with the US elections coming in…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB254125
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As state governments become more entrenched in the use of re-districting to cement their legislative majorities, referendums offer a rare direct link between citizens and…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB282039
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Once considered the means by which US states could act as ‘laboratories of democracy’ that find new ways to improve governance, the recent construction of federalism as…