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The Political Economy of Government Auditing addresses the elusive quest for greater transparency and accountability in the management of public finances in emerging economies; and, more specifically, it examines the contribution of autonomous audit agencies (AAAs) to the fight against corruption and waste. Whilst the role of audit agencies in curbing corruption is increasingly acknowledged, there exists little comparative work on their institutional effectiveness. Addressing the performance of AAAs in emerging economies, Carlos Santiso pursues a political economy perspective that addresses the context in which audit agencies are embedded, and the governance factors that make them work or fa...
Has supplements called "número extraordinario" which carry their own numbering.
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this very useful analysis of constitutional law in Venezuela provides essential information on the country’s sources of constitutional law, its form of government, and its administrative structure. Lawyers who handle transnational matters will appreciate the clarifications of particular terminology and its application. Throughout the book, the treatment emphasizes the specific points at which constitutional law affects the interpretation of legal rules and procedure. Thorough coverage by a local expert fully describes the political system, the historical background, the role of treaties, legislation, jurisprudence,...
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"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
No puede negarse que el Derecho Administrativo ha construido buena parte de su teoría sobre conceptos inacabados e imprecisos, sobre los cuales no existe, en algunos casos, el más mínimo consenso. Ejemplo de ello son las nociones de servicio público, interés general, utilidad pública, contrato administrativo, acto de gobierno y acto administrativo. La idea de referirnos a ellos surge de la revisión de nuestra jurisprudencia, en especial la referida a la acción de nulidad. Al analizarla con la intención de precisar el alcance que se le da a la noción de actos administrativos como objeto de esa acción, encontramos una relativa utilización de la expresión “acto complejo”, aunqu...