Barriers to language maintenance and multilingual schooling: examining the language policy provisions in Nepal’s constitutions

Autor: Puskar R. Joshi, Zohreh R. Eslami

Publikováno v: Cogent Education, Vol 11, Iss 1 (2024)

Despite Nepal’s huge linguistic diversity, maintaining minority languages and providing the mother tongue-based education to non-dominant language children are Nepal’s two major obstacles. Scholars have pointed to a negative consequence of the st

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Constitutionalizing secularism, alternative secularisms or liberal-democratic constitutionalism?A critical reading of some Turkish, ECtHR and Indian Supreme Court cases on ‘secularism’

Autor: Veit Bader

Publikováno v: Utrecht Law Review, Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 8-35 (2010)

In recent debates on the constitutional status of 'secularism' we can discern three positions. The first tries to overcome the absence of 'secularism' in most liberal-democratic constitutions by developing a more robust theory of constitutional secul

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Endogenous Constitutions

Autor: Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni

Publikováno v: The Economic Journal. 120:1-39

We present a theory of the choice of alternative democratic constitutions, a majoritarian or a consensual one, in a n unequal society. A majoritarian democracy redistributes resources from the collectivity toward relatively few people, and has a rela

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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02309.x

Minority Voting and Public Project Provision

Autor: Hans Gersbach

Publikováno v: Economics : the Open-Access, Open-Assessment e-Journal (2007)
Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment Journal, 3 (1)
Economics : the Open-Access, Open-Assessment e-Journal (2009)

The author proposes a two-round process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first round, a society decides by a simple majority decision whether to provide the public project. If the proposal in the first round is r

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http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/discussionpapers/2007-20

Democratic provision of divisible public goods

Autor: Gersbach, Hans

In this paper we examine the potential of democratic constitutions for the provision of divisible public goods in a large economy. Our main insights are as follows: When aggregate shocks are absent, the combination of the following rules yields first

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https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30740