The Privatization of Real Estate Related Public Goods and Services in the United States and Finland; A Comparative Study

2003 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
The United States ◽  
Goods And Services

Features of the language of law: A comparative study of Polish, English and Indonesian legal texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Zozula
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Text ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Civil Codes ◽  
Parallel Texts

Abstract Researchers studying the language of law agree that there is a number of certain features which are characteristic of the legal genre, regardless of the language of the legal text. Among the most commonly listed features of lingua legis are: conventionalised sentences, performative verbs, Latinisms, euphemisms, and time expressions. The paper provides a discussion of these features, as well as provides examples of their occurrence in Polish, English, and Indonesian legal texts. The analised corpus includes the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, The Constitution of the United States of America with amendments, Polish and Indonesian Civil Codes (clauses concerning obligations), together with a set of parallel texts of rental agreements and real estate sale contracts.

The Endurance and Evolution of Afghan Customary Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (825) ◽  
pp. 140-145
Author(s):  
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
The United States ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Electoral Democracy

The two-decade effort by the United States and its NATO allies to build a modern liberal state in Afghanistan envisioned electoral democracy replacing village councils and other forms of customary authority. But citizens still rely on these community-based bodies to resolve disputes, provide small-scale public goods and services, and broker relations with local government. Customary institutions may also provide protection against predatory government officials. Although the international community has largely overlooked customary authority, US and NATO military forces eventually recognized their importance. Throughout history, Afghan rulers have regarded customary authorities as threats to their power, and they have been largely excluded from ongoing peace talks among the United States, the Afghan government, and the Taliban.

“Little Plants in the Country”: Henry Ford's Village Industries and the Beginning of Decentralized Technology in Modern America

Prospects ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 181-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard P. Segal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New York ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Physical Proximity ◽  
The World ◽  
Word Processors

“Technology Spurs Decentralization Across the Country.” So reads a 1984 New York Times article on real-estate trends in the United States. The contemporary revolution in information processing and transmittal now allows large businesses and other institutions to disperse their offices and other facilities across the country, even across the world, without loss of the policy- and decision-making abilities formerly requiring regular physical proximity. Thanks to computers, word processors, and the like, decentralization has become a fact of life in America and other highly technological societies.

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