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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 ...
2.
A New Form of Democratic Oversight in the EU: The Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group for Europol
(Ian Cooper/Essay)
(Ian Cooper/Essay)
... rather than a whole policy field. The JPSG is also distinctive in a number of key respects, including a stronger legal basis, more restrictive membership and participation rules, greater continuity of ...
3.
Federalism and constitution: States’ participation in constitutional reform as a guarantee of the federalisation process. (A study of Spain’s unique model)
(María Reyes Pérez Alberdi/Essay)
(María Reyes Pérez Alberdi/Essay)
... by the central government and means the structure of competences can be modified as necessary. In this study, we will consider how federations manage, to a greater or lesser extent, regional intervention ...
4.
The voting systems in the Council of the EU and the Bundesrat – What do they tell us about European Federalism?
(Jacek Czaputowicz and Marcin Kleinowski/Essay)
(Jacek Czaputowicz and Marcin Kleinowski/Essay)
... greater power compared to their populations than smaller federal units in the German Bundesrat. The results presented in this paper indicate that the Lisbon system of voting in the Council differs significantly ...
5.
The role of the Capital Markets Union: towards regulatory harmonisation and supervisory convergence
(Sérgio Coimbra Henriques/Essay)
(Sérgio Coimbra Henriques/Essay)
... enacted into law, leading towards harmonisation and supervisory convergence, show us that the CMU is an foundational piece in a collective journey towards ever greater integration in terms of economic ...
6.
Franchises Lost and Gained: Post-Coloniality and the Development of Women’s Rights in Canada
(Charlotte Helen Skeet/Essay)
(Charlotte Helen Skeet/Essay)
The Canadian constitution is to some extent characterised by its focus on equality, and in particular gender equality. This development of women’s rights in Canada and the greater engagement of women as ...
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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)
... of EU rulemaking, enforcement, and adjudication comes closer to the sort of administrative legitimacy that is mediated through national executives, national courts, and national parliaments to a much greater ...
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National parliaments fighting back? Institutional engineering as a successful means to become active actors in EU affairs
(Diane Fromage/Essay)
(Diane Fromage/Essay)
... the role other institutions, such as constitutional courts, have played in this field. It is argued that while these arrangements may have been successful in allowing national parliaments to play a greater ...
... proposal -a Joint Budgetary Procedure- tailored to strengthen the European Semester with stronger incentive mechanisms, greater reach and stronger governance. ...
... been the most substantive attempts at subnational constitutionalism that were instituted under opposing political systems, and the extent to which they have enabled greater prospects for a stable federation ...
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Answers to Spanish centrifugal federalism: Asymmetrical federalism versus coercive federalism
(Esther Seijas Villadangos/Essay)
(Esther Seijas Villadangos/Essay)
The developing debate in Spain about its conversion into a federal State has now acquired an even greater relevance. Federalism, as a process of federalization, is subject to several descriptions with ...
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The revival of the right to petition in the Statutes of Italian Ordinary Regions
(Cristina Bertolino/Essay)
(Cristina Bertolino/Essay)
... While widely regarded as obsolete in current legal theory and rarely applied in the national legal system, it is once again gaining momentum thanks to the second “wave” of Regional Statutes and the greater ...
... process and they serve to ensure transparency, legitimacy and greater accountability to the public institutions ...