... 2021. The second sessions are now set to start. Aside from its outcome, it is hard to underestimate the relevance of the Conference process, an experiment in participatory democracy that may turn into ...
... causes for the complexity of the European Union – Member State relationship. One of them are the shortcomings of the EU bureaucracy; the other cause – postulating the European Union as a value community ...
... an instrument for the diffusion of democracy, human rights and the European model of regional integration in Southeast Asia. Taking into consideration the normative interaction between the two organizations, ...
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Devolution and Peacebuilding in Kenya, fact or illusion? The case of Marsabit County
(Ibrahim Harun/Essay)
(Ibrahim Harun/Essay)
... built on the promises of enhancing democracy, building peace, and ensuring the equitable distribution of resources. This article investigates whether devolution has delivered on the promise of greater ...
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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)
... on the practice, the full potential of EU inter-parliamentarism is not yet fulfilled, for two set of reasons: the unresolved ambiguities over its contribution to parliamentary democracy and the lack of ...
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An Opportunity for Reflection – A Special Issue on “The Constitution of Canada: History, Evolution, Influence and Reform”
(G. Martinico, R. Albert, A. Baraggia and C. Fasone/Editorial)
(G. Martinico, R. Albert, A. Baraggia and C. Fasone/Editorial)
Canada is and will for the foreseeable future be a peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy whose Constitution Act, 1867, now 150 years old as of 2017, has become a model for the modern world. The Constitution ...
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How to Bridge the Gaps between Competing Paradigms for EU Law: An Introduction
(Marta Simoncini and Gert Straetmans/Editorial)
(Marta Simoncini and Gert Straetmans/Editorial)
... the EU is a demoi-cracy that struggles with a democratic disconnect or even deficit. On the other hand, other contributions debate paradigms and their implementation in important policy domains. These ...
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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)
... in order to ‘borrow’ legitimacy from the national level. Unless and until Europeans begin to experience democracy and constitutionalism in supranational terms, the ‘administrative, not constitutional’ ...
... on constitutional politics in East Germany and that the features of consensus democracy are only partly able to explain law-making in this sector. ...
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Sovereignty and Democracy: Overcoming Supranational Mutual Double-Binds from the Eurozone
(Francesco Pigozzo/Essay)
(Francesco Pigozzo/Essay)
... of Europe’s situation and avoid for this reason a fully structural approach to the institutional reforming process in the EU: a ‘sovereignty double-bind’ and a ‘democracy double-bind’. An effective roadmap ...
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Eurocrisis and the myths of European redistribution: illegitimate, unsustainable, inefficient?
(Francesco Nicoli/Essay)
(Francesco Nicoli/Essay)
... Demos”: it is believed that democracy- and thus redistribution- can endure only within a single Demos, and thus no solidarity can exist outside of a Demos. This paper aims to challenge the view that any ...
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International Dictatorship or International Democracy. A Discussion of Albert Camus’ 1946 Considerations
(Tommaso Visone/Essay)
(Tommaso Visone/Essay)
In the series Neither Victims Nor Executioners (1946) the Franco-Algerian writer Albert Camus argued for the need of a relative utopia that would allow man, who refused the logic of murder and violence, ...
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Sub-national constitutional politics: contesting or complementing, replicating or innovating, traditional constitutionalism?
(Paulus Blokker and Werner Reutter/Essay)
(Paulus Blokker and Werner Reutter/Essay)
... non-EU perspective. Even though the papers take different perspectives on the topic at hand, they all engage with the contribution sub-national constitutions can make to democracy and the nation-state ...
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A new Commission for a new era. Is the parliamentarization of the European Commission the way forward?
(Jerónimo Maillo González-Orús/Essay)
(Jerónimo Maillo González-Orús/Essay)
... true democracy in the European Union, there is a need of promoting ‘different in nature’ EU politics, more based on cross-national ideological majorities (or alliances) and less on national interests bargaining. ...
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The “Arab Spring” and the EU’s “Democracy Promotion” in Egypt: A Missed Appointment?
(Tommaso Virgili/Essay)
(Tommaso Virgili/Essay)
... vis-à-vis the Southern Mediterranean so as to meet the new aspirations of democracy and human rights unfolding on the ground, the European Union has failed to effectively pursue the principles that it ...
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Constitutional Courts, Constitutional Interpretation, and Subnational Constitutionalism
(Anna Gamper/Essay)
(Anna Gamper/Essay)
... Constitutional Court’s views on subnational direct democracy. The second case discusses the Spanish Constitutional Court’s decision on the Catalonian Statute. Thirdly, the paper examines US federal courts’ ...
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European Citizens… Mind the Gap! Some Reflections on Participatory Democracy in the EU
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
... “input legitimacy” still means the improvement of citizens’ participation, in compliance with Art. 11 TEU. This essay, building on the extensive academic scholarship on participatory democracy, discusses ...
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Empowering Local Democracy In Catalonia: Tools And Policy Domains To Implement a Top-Down Solution
(Lluís Medir Tejado/Essay)
(Lluís Medir Tejado/Essay)
... improve local democracy in Catalonia. The main hypothesis of the work is that, even though the Spanish local model is constrained by a shared and unique set of legal regulations, local institutions in ...
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Regulatory Framework of Local Citizen Participation: Instruments of Direct and Participative Democracy in the Municipal Field
(Enriqueta Expósito/Essay)
(Enriqueta Expósito/Essay)
This article focuses on the analysis of the regulatory framework of citizen participation in the local government, which organises direct and participatory democracy at the local level, and identifies ...
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Civil participation policy and democratic innovation in the autonomous community of Aragon
(Sergio Castel Gayán/Essay)
(Sergio Castel Gayán/Essay)
The increasing complexity of our society requires mechanisms of democratic innovation that enrich the system of representative democracy to increase citizens’ knowledge and experiences, thus improving ...