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Constitutional and administrative paradigms in judicial control over EU high and low politics
(Pola Cebulak/Essay)
(Pola Cebulak/Essay)
... domains of high and low politics, which is derived from constitutional theory, and external to the CJEU; and secondly a distinction based on legitimizing paradigms of administrative (EU as effective global ...
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The Interpretive Function of the CJEU and the Interrelationship of EU and National Levels of Consumer Protection
(Geraint Howells and Gert Straetmans/Essay)
(Geraint Howells and Gert Straetmans/Essay)
... in the Unfair Contract Terms Directive and the informed decision requirements in the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. In these three domains the CJEU recognises that the level of customer attention ...
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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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National parliaments and governmental accountability in the crisis: theory and practice
(Diane Fromage/Essay)
(Diane Fromage/Essay)
... and Euro summits organized between 2010 and 2014. It first analyzes the formal obligations these Governments have in this domain before focusing on the practice; how National parliaments have used their ...
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On the Brink of a Federal State? The Decentralisation Model of the Peruvian Constitution
(Maria Bertel/Essay)
(Maria Bertel/Essay)
... this domain. More than a decade later, the decentralisation process is still work in progress. In this article, I will analyse the relevant case law of the Constitutional Court and the most important constitutional ...
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Reshaping Disability Policy Making in Italy: The ‘Focal Point’, the National Observatory on the Situation of Persons with Disabilities, and... the Absence of Regions?
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
... to ‘re-imagine’ the configuration of the whole ‘institutional’ disability domain. It is nonetheless surprising that the efforts at national level are not counterbalanced by identical commitments in the ...
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Globalization and Cross-Border Cooperation in EU Law: A Transnational Research Agenda
(Anna Margherita Russo/Essay)
(Anna Margherita Russo/Essay)
... process and in the implementation of legal rules, openness, emergence of hybrid legal phenomena which do not belong - exclusively at least - to the domain of hard or soft law), while the second part analyses ...
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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)
... on policy domains and the quality of the decision-making processes. Researching the stability of the participation tools or whether local democracy prefers more “ad hoc” processes allows us to analyze ...
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Closer to the citizens? European constitutional processes, communication policy and publicity
(Giulio Itzcovich/Essay)
(Giulio Itzcovich/Essay)
... Publicity originally emerged from the domain of public relations in corporate governance and bears some similarity with commercial marketing and political propaganda. By analysing the constitutional ...