It is safe to say that much of international law—the bedrock of the international order—has
been shaped by the Western legal doctrine. How does the Islamic legal tradition relate to …

Does culture matter for the degree to which a constitution is complied with? Constitutions
have important economic and political effects. Yet, there is only scant knowledge about why …

This chapter discusses common definitions of institutions useful for comparative economic
research. Alternative typologies are introduced that help researchers in organizing the wide …

Religious and cultural practices have major implications for a Country's economic
performance. However, it is not clear if the formal institutionalization of these social norms …

Does a domestic constitutional court within a state encourage greater acceptance of the
jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)? This question is particularly relevant in …

One of the historical breakthroughs in political Islam in Indonesia after the collapse of the
New Order regime was the emergence of the regional autonomy policy, in which …

In the late nineties, Barry Weingast argued that constitutional enforcement requires
coordinated social responses to transgressions (Weingast, 1997). Courts step in when it is …

Abstract Ahmad Syafii Maarif—affectionately known as Buya Syafii—is one of the
Indonesian leading Muslim intellectuals and is a well-known national figure. This article …

The purpose of this study was to 1) find out absorption words from Arabic, especially those
related to the political language of Islam, which entered and were absorbed into Indonesian …

Abstract Chapter 1: Estimating the Welfare Effects of the Fleet-wide CO2 Emissions
Regulation in the EUTo estimate the total change in welfare due to the tightened target of 95 …