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Rising to the Populist Challenge: Social Security prescriptions for the Italian Welfare State
(Davide Orsitto/Essay)
(Davide Orsitto/Essay)
... leads this change with the Five Star – Lega Nord coalition government. The change in voting behavior urges a serious reflection on the social unease causing it. The prevailing view argues that the effects ...
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Inter-parliamentary Cooperation in the EU and outside the Union: Distinctive Features and Limits of the European Experience
(Elena Griglio and Nicola Lupo/Essay)
(Elena Griglio and Nicola Lupo/Essay)
... of vertical formats. The article argues that inter-parliamentary cooperation in the EU is expected to act as a sui generis practice when compared to apparently similar forms of transnational dialogue amongst ...
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Bi-Ethnic Federalism and the Question of Sovereignty: Understanding the Competitive Security Postures in Cyprus
(Pavlos I. Koktsidis/Essay)
(Pavlos I. Koktsidis/Essay)
... in ways that increase their own sense of security. The present study argues that legal and political positions on sovereignty in Cyprus are largely built around the competitive security assumptions held ...
4.
The Canadian Living Tree Doctrine as a Comparative Model of Evolutionary Constitutional Interpretation
(Leonardo Pierdominici/Essay)
(Leonardo Pierdominici/Essay)
... the well-known Canadian Living tree doctrine as a model of evolutionary constitutional interpretation, and argues that it is a relevant case study for our purposes since it is able to precisely link the ...
... in the EU. It argues that the EU’s constitutional framework is not sufficiently responsive to changing material conditions or to the changing preferences of Europeans. Thus, EU constitutionalism needs ...
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Reflections on the ‘Administrative, Not Constitutional’ Character of EU Law in Times of Crisis
(Peter L. Lindseth/Essay)
(Peter L. Lindseth/Essay)
As is broadly recognized, the realm of administrative power greatly expanded over the course the twentieth century (particularly after 1945). This essay argues that this expansion, along with differential ...
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Promoting solidarity in crisis times: Building on the EU Budget and the EU Funds
(Katerina Pantazatou/Essay)
(Katerina Pantazatou/Essay)
... measures and the potentials of attributing the EU fiscal capacity, it aims to conceptualize the notion of solidarity as redistribution as this has evolved by reason of the crisis. The article argues that ...
... discusses a number of reforms which could strengthen the role of the extra-parliamentary parties as ‘representative’ actors. It argues that the role that the Europarties play in the Union today would have ...
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Eurozone, non-Eurozone and “troubled asymmetries” among national parliaments in the EU. Why and to what extent this is of concern
(Cristina Fasone/Essay)
(Cristina Fasone/Essay)
... undermine other. The article argues that such an outcome is produced by the combined effects of EU and international measures with national constitutional rules and case law, which can confer more or less ...
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The Evolutionary Economic Implications of Constitutional Designs: Lessons from the Constitutional Morphogenesis of New England and New Zealand
(Benjamen F. Gussen/Essay)
(Benjamen F. Gussen/Essay)
... Constitutional economics, through the works of its founding father, James Buchanan, is employed to explain the effects of these constitutional choices. The paper argues that empowering local government ...
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The Role of Subnational Constitutions in Accommodating Centrifugal Tendencies within European States: Flanders, Catalonia and Scotland Compared
(Dirk Hanschel/Essay)
(Dirk Hanschel/Essay)
... empowerment to establish fully-fledged subnational constitutions and through the active use of that empowerment. The author argues that subnational constitutions, whilst not acting as a panacea, may serve ...
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What Scope for Subnational Autonomy: the Issue of the Legal Enforcement of the Principle of Subsidiarity
(Werner Vandenbruwaene/Essay)
(Werner Vandenbruwaene/Essay)
... what? This paper argues that the principle of subsidiarity is one of the key components of a system of multilevel governance. Subsidiarity is commonly assumed to require power to reside ‘as close to those ...
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Thinking ahead of disasters. The role of risk regulation in the European Union
(Marta Simoncini/Essay)
(Marta Simoncini/Essay)
... (EU) approach to the regulation of risks of potential catastrophic impact by framing it in the context of resilience. In so doing, it argues that this approach is shaped by the multilevel interdependencies ...
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Comparing the Subnational Constitutional Space of the European Sub-State Entities in the Area of Foreign Affairs
(Nikos Skoutaris/Essay)
(Nikos Skoutaris/Essay)
... Finally, it focuses on their autonomous external representation at the EU level. It argues that, despite conventional wisdom, States do not enjoy a monopoly of competences in the area of foreign affai ...
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Federalism, the subnational constitutional framework and local government: Accommodating minorities within minorities
(Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha/Essay)
(Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha/Essay)
... A subnational constitutional framework that is based on the constitutional principles of self-rule (and possibly shared rule), this article argues, represents the best hope in addressing the majority-minority ...
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Operation Atalanta and the Protection of EU Citizens: Civis Europaeus Unheeded?
(Joris Larik/Essay)
(Joris Larik/Essay)
... constitutional law and the operational parameters of Atalanta. It argues that within the particular framework of the international effort to combat piracy, the protection of citizens by military ...
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Constitutional Interpretation in Federations and its Impact on the Federal Balance
(Arun Sagar/Essay)
(Arun Sagar/Essay)
... This paper argues that the general interpretative philosophy underlying the judicial approach has a huge impact on the balance of power in a federation; an originalist interpretation tends to favour the ...
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One Mountain with Two Tigers- China and the United States in East Asian Regionalism
(Li Xing /Essay)
(Li Xing /Essay)
The article argues that regionalism in East Asia since the end of the Cold War has been largely shaped by the interactions of China-US relations, influencing and determining the development and transformation ...