The Conference on the future of Europe is underway. It may pave the way to a reform of the EU. Or it may go down in history as a lost opportunity, or even as an initiative which backfired, having created ...
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European Taxes and Fiscal Justice: Citizens’ Support and Lessons from the US
(Tomasz P. Woźniakowski and Miguel Poiares Maduro/Essay)
(Tomasz P. Woźniakowski and Miguel Poiares Maduro/Essay)
... the term ‘fiscalization’ which implies the power to tax, rather than ambiguous terms such as ‘Eurozone budget’. History of federations, such as the US, teaches us that some types of taxes can only be ...
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Jurisdiction and Pluralism: Judicial Functions and Organization in Federal Systems. The Case of Germany
(Dian Schefold/Essay)
(Dian Schefold/Essay)
This article analyses the model of judicial federalism that has developed in the Federal Republic of Germany. As the constitutional history of Germany reveals, federal regulation of the judiciary has often ...
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Addressing the limits of autonomy: Origin, organization and purpose of horizontal intergovernmental forums in three federations
(Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha/Essay)
(Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha/Essay)
... the view that institutionalization of intergovernmental relations may not be a necessary condition for effective intergovernmental relations. Yet, in countries with no history of multilevel governance ...
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Are You Ready for That? The Next European Elections as a Crucial Moment in the History of the EU
(Giuseppe Martinico/Editorial)
(Giuseppe Martinico/Editorial)
This issue of Perspectives on Federalism presents a special symposium devoted to the elections of the European Parliament. The EU has frequently been described as a burden, a threat to national sovereignty ...
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Attempts to change the British House of Lords into a second chamber of the nations and regions: explaining a history of failed reforms
(Meg Russell/Essay)
(Meg Russell/Essay)
The House of Lords is the world’s longest-established and probably best-known second chamber. Wholly unelected, with most members appointed for life, it appears a vestige of the ‘elite’ form of bicameralism ...
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The Lesson from the Modern American Federalism: A Challenge to Effective Public Policy Performance
(Geiguen Shin/Essay)
(Geiguen Shin/Essay)
... effective public policy performance. Focusing mainly on the period of the past 50 years of U.S. federalism history, this article suggests that federalism dynamics have not exercised either constant liberal ...
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History of a (Limited) Success: Five Points on the Representativeness of the Committee of the Regions
(Giuseppe Martinico/Essay)
(Giuseppe Martinico/Essay)
This article briefly explores the reasons why the Committee of the Regions (CoR) has only partially accomplished its representative function. It is divided into three parts. In the first part I argue that ...
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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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Franchises Lost and Gained: Post-Coloniality and the Development of Women’s Rights in Canada
(Charlotte Helen Skeet/Essay)
(Charlotte Helen Skeet/Essay)
... of the pre-confederation history of suffrage in Canada to both refute a simplistic linear view of women’s rights development and to argue for recognition of the Indigenous contribution to the history of ...
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The Canadian Living Tree Doctrine as a Comparative Model of Evolutionary Constitutional Interpretation
(Leonardo Pierdominici/Essay)
(Leonardo Pierdominici/Essay)
... ‘history, evolution, influence and reform’ of constitutional law in a comprehensive doctrine. The doctrine's comparative influence will be analysed in particular: the Living tree is especially relevant, ...
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Provincializing Constitutions: History, Narrative, and the Disappearance of Canada’s Provincial Constitutions
(Peter Price/Essay)
(Peter Price/Essay)
... in Canada over the past 150 years, which has become primarily focussed on post-Confederation constitutional history and written constitutionalism. ...
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The Single Market and Synchronized Mechanisms for the Exercise of Administrative Functions: Converging Pathways or New Pathways for Integration? The Case of the European Banking Union
(Fabio Giglioni/Essay)
(Fabio Giglioni/Essay)
... through which the functions of supervision and resolution are affecting the single financial market. This case study is very interesting because these functions represent a genuine novelty in the history ...
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“Top-down” vs. “Bottom-up”: A Dichotomy of Paradigms for the Legitimation of Public Power in the EU
(Sergio Dellavalle/Essay)
(Sergio Dellavalle/Essay)
... destiny. After giving a brief account of how both legitimation strategies have developed in the history of political ideas, attention is focused on the theories regarding the legitimacy of public power ...
... and philosophical contributions. In spite of the evident diversities of these articles, we can identify three main connecting themes: latest developments in EU law, history of thought and European integration, ...
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Identity vs. representation: what makes ‘the people’? Rethinking democratic citizenship through (and beyond) Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen
(David Ragazzoni/Essay)
(David Ragazzoni/Essay)
... of liberal democratic citizenship (sect. 0). Combining political history and theory, the present paper looks backwards to the debate between Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen in 1920s Weimar over the fate of ...
... Professor of Theories and History of International Economic Relations Department of Political Science, University of Roma Tre Jean Monnet Chair European Economic Governance Managing Editor History of ...
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