... the ire of the Catholic community while the agrarian reforms that of the Nair community since the former managed the largest number of schools while the latter formed the main landowning community. Thus, ...
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Regional responses to COVID-19: A comparative analysis of EU and ASEAN policies to counter the pandemic
(Maria Papageorgiou and Daniella S. Nogueira Melo/Essay)
(Maria Papageorgiou and Daniella S. Nogueira Melo/Essay)
... both organisations need to acquire a more proactive role in health and crisis management. ...
3.
Fiscal Federalism Policy in Somalia: Emerging Challenges and Agenda for Reform
(Najibullah Nor Isak and Ali Yassin Sheikh Ali/Essay)
(Najibullah Nor Isak and Ali Yassin Sheikh Ali/Essay)
... expenditure assignments, tax-raising power, transfer policy, natural-resources management, and revenue-sharing mechanisms. ...
4.
The Iraqi Federation and the Kurdistan Regional Government: the conflict between communal and oil and gas policies
(Adriano Dirri/Essay)
(Adriano Dirri/Essay)
... in their interplay, which permeates the whole Iraqi constitutional experience. The 2005 Iraqi Constitution embodies specific but vague dispositions related to the ownership and the ‘management’ of oil ...
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Federalism in post-conflict states: Assessing Somalia's challenges and the way forward
(A.Y.S. Ali, A.H. Dahir and Z.D. Hersi/Essay)
(A.Y.S. Ali, A.H. Dahir and Z.D. Hersi/Essay)
... the most challenging factors to federalism adoption in Somalia. Other challenges relate to the provisional Somali constitution, such as power distribution, fiscal management, regional boundary disputes, ...
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A New Form of Democratic Oversight in the EU: The Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group for Europol
(Ian Cooper/Essay)
(Ian Cooper/Essay)
... membership, stronger access to EU officials and documents, a seat on the Europol Management Board and an explicit right to ask oral and written questions. Taken together, these attributes indicate that ...
7.
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 ...
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Bicameralism in Belgium: the dismantlement of the Senate for the sake of multinational confederalism
(Patricia Popelier/Essay)
(Patricia Popelier/Essay)
... to the needs of multinational conflict management, and that complying with the federative ideal of an upper house giving voice to the collective needs of the sub-states would stand in the way of the evolution ...
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The failure of intergovernmentalism in tackling the EU crisis and the European Parliament’s initiative
(Roberto Castaldi/Editorial)
(Roberto Castaldi/Editorial)
... level. National governments have taken the lead in the crisis management of the EU: the European Council has become the dominant institution and the intergovernmental method has come back into fashion. ...
... are considered in depth: the increasing institutionalisation of the European Council and its critical position with regard to the management of the economic and financial crisis and to the ongoing process ...
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Thinking ahead of disasters. The role of risk regulation in the European Union
(Marta Simoncini/Essay)
(Marta Simoncini/Essay)
... a specific issue of disaster management: given the low probability of high impact disasters, it is difficult to assess related risks, so their regulation involves balancing different rights and interests ...
12.
Empowering Local Democracy In Catalonia: Tools And Policy Domains To Implement a Top-Down Solution
(Lluís Medir Tejado/Essay)
(Lluís Medir Tejado/Essay)
... tend to use their legally granted self-management capacities to design their own instruments which end up presenting perceivable distinct features, stressing democracy in different policy domains, and ...
13.
A First Important Experience in Participatory Democracy in Italy: Region of Tuscany Law No. 69 of 27 December 2007
(Cecilia Corsi/Essay)
(Cecilia Corsi/Essay)
... regional and local policies.” The law regulates two principal typologies of participatory processes, namely: 1) public debate; 2) the Region’s support for such processes. In order to guide and manage these ...
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We're one, but we're not the same: Enhanced Cooperation and the Tension between Unity and Asymmetry in the EU
(Carlo Maria Cantore/Essay)
(Carlo Maria Cantore/Essay)
... then it analyses the first two cases. Enhanced cooperation is a unique test to understand how the EU manages to balance unity and asymmetry, thus an analysis of the rules and the relevant practice is very ...
... and competitiveness increase, to promote a transition toward a sustainable economy. To be politically manageable, the European budget should increase moderately and should not exceed, in the medium term, ...
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Closer to the citizens? European constitutional processes, communication policy and publicity
(Giulio Itzcovich/Essay)
(Giulio Itzcovich/Essay)
... function: the public management of communication aimed at creating public sphere, improving political communication, participation and trust, building consensus and legitimacy for a governance agency. ...
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Why Immigration Policy Should Be a Federal Policy: Considerations on the EU and the US
(Paolo Giordani/note)
(Paolo Giordani/note)
... their individual and collective ability to manage immigration. In the EU and the US, the existence of a federal policy is a precondition for an effective management of migratory flows ...
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The Spinelli Group: an engine of the initiatives that Europe needs?
(Roberto Castaldi/editorial)
(Roberto Castaldi/editorial)
This paper analyses the importance of the creation of the Spinelli Group in the current context of the European unification process. If the Spinelli Group manages to take initiatives to advance the ability ...
... Länder alike. The Grand Coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD managed to quickly gather a qualified majority in the Bundestag, making the qualified majority of Länder the crucial negotiating point. At the end, ...
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EU’s Projection of Security Peace Missions as a Tool either for Fusion or Fragmentation
(Gianni Bonvicini/Essay)
(Gianni Bonvicini/Essay)
If one looks at the rapid growth of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) since the Blair-Chirac meeting of Saint-Malo in 1998 and in particular at the launch of several crisis management missions ...