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Parliamentary opposition in Morocco has long been fragmented and confined. However, the Moroccan Constitution of 2011 solemnly enshrines the status of the parliamentary opposition, demonstrating the sincerity of its recognition. This enshrinement,...
Courts can play a critical role in protecting the democratic participation of opposition parties. In this article, we examine the role of apex courts in South Africa and Zimbabwe as forums for democratic contestation by opposition parties....
This article examines the relevant constitutional and legal frameworks on political parties, multipartyism and political opposition in anglophone Eastern Africa. Using Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe as case studies, it shows that while these countries...
The scholarship on the role of opposition in parliaments has highlighted a dual role for the opposition, that is to extract accountability from the government and to be prepared as the “government-in-waiting”. However, there are significant...
To understand the mechanism of social governance employed to facilitate surveillance and exert control over popular contention and organized opposition in the People’s Republic of China by and beyond the law, we introduce the concept of...
This article categorizes Pakistan as a hybrid regime, as opposed to one operating under deep state, by tracing the roots of military dominance to the colonial Martial Race Theory. In this context, the article dissects who constitutes as political...
Fourth-branch accountability can be characterized as a constitutional trust-type mandate to provide intrastate nonpartisan accountability with a broad repertoire of institutional capacities. Fourth-branch institutions play a significant role in...
When courts are faced with claims for unenumerated constitutional rights, it is very common for them to state that the separation of powers requires them to stay away from recognising such rights. I scrutinise the validity of this argument through a...