POLI 211 Chapter : East European Constitutional Review (doc.).doc

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 211
• Professor: Fillippo Sabetti

Document Summary

Demand for law emerged from an unlikely group: the pensioners. The problem is not the demand for law, but the courts and other state institutions that do not facilitate justice in russia, and so discourage the citizens from trying. Upgrading coefficients by government, although didn"t really work. The system was a political issue (often to serve the elections. ) Failure: ipc was at 1. 2 but max. was at 0. 7 since gov. claimed it didn"t have enough re- sources. --> pension spending was reduced. The use of arbitrary power to set pensions by manipulating calculations of the average wage. Lawsuits against the government"s pension calculations law 113. The court ruled that pensions shouldn"t be reduced under ipc"s restrictions. ->argument: the soviet legacy hampered the demand for law, particularly through its impact on the mentality of people and their attitude towards the courts not entirely true. Pensioners, with support from the communist party started with the demand of law.