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Subnational Constitutionalism in The Sars of the People’s Republic Of China. An Exceptional Tailored Suit Model?
(Paulo Cardinal - Yihe Zhang/Essay)
(Paulo Cardinal - Yihe Zhang/Essay)
... universal range of legislative power stricto sensu, an independent judicial system, the economic and financial dimensions, including taxation, and also, at least to some extent, in the spheres of political ...
... precisely because of its failure. A federation on paper, Argentina is a highly centralized country, in which economic dependence of the Provinces from the central government has destroyed any kind of autonomy ...
... have a more complicated relation with legislative and executive bodies, as less guarantees of independence or court-overturning amendments show. Finally, subnational constitutional courts tend to develop ...
24.
Regional electoral legislation in Italy. A short essay on the rise and fall of the myth of territorial differentiation
(Enrico Grosso/Essay)
(Enrico Grosso/Essay)
... widespread use of federalist rhetoric, and how scantily independent they appear to be. The effect is that the actual uniformity of electoral systems will cause a further step towards uniformity of party ...
... the attribution process to the Union of a decision-making power in foreign policy and in the security sector, starting within the perimeter initially of the Eurozone, where an ever increasing interdependence ...
26.
Closer to the citizens? European constitutional processes, communication policy and publicity
(Giulio Itzcovich/Essay)
(Giulio Itzcovich/Essay)
This essay proposes that the emergence and failure of the debate on the EU constitutional reform depends, amongst other things, on the rise of what it calls ‘publicity’ as public policy and governance ...
27.
Economic Epistemology and Methodological Nationalism: a Federalist Perspective
(Fabio Masini/Note)
(Fabio Masini/Note)
... to the capacity to understand the operation of economic relations and to effectively achieve economic policy goals. The high interdependence worldwide of economic relations calls for a multi-layer perspective ...
... the terminology used when dealing with independentist, irredentist and rattachist parties by complementing the traditional approach with studies from international relations. ...
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And nothing else matters. The ICJ’s judicial restraint in its Opinion on Kosovo’s Independence
(Giuseppe Bianco/Note)
(Giuseppe Bianco/Note)
The International Court of Justice gave its Advisory Opinion on the “Accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo” few months ago. It found no prohibition ...