... of the major sources of pollution worldwide, has usually been disregarded when it came to take climate change mitigation action. Therefore, this research has decided to focus on the international regulation ...
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European Integration and Minority Nationalism: a Literature Review and Avenues for Further Research
(Michal Strnad/Essay)
(Michal Strnad/Essay)
... avenues for further research. Future research should enhance our understanding of whether, how, in which direction and under what conditions current (dis)integration processes occurring at different ...
In this paper, I examine the degree and causes of judicial activism in a German subnational constitutional court. This research goal entails two dimensions. On the one hand, I explore whether and to what ...
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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)
... power sharing; judicial power sharing; and fiscal federalism. According to the research findings, poor knowledge of federalism, considering federalism as a clan-based system, and political corruption are ...
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Subnational constitutions between asymmetry in fundamental rights protection and the principle of non-discrimination: a comparison between Belgium (Charter for Flanders) and Switzerland
(Matteo Monti/Essay)
(Matteo Monti/Essay)
This paper investigates the complex relationship between asymmetry and the principle of non-discrimination from the perspective of subnational fundamental rights. The research question of this paper concerns ...
... cooperation is rather under-researched. This article focuses on the actors of Administrative Parliamentary Networks and introduces two entirely new entities: European Programmes; and networks of Parliamentary ...
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Socialisation and legitimacy intermediation in the Council of the European Union
(Kamil Ławniczak/Essay)
(Kamil Ławniczak/Essay)
... question. Intergovernmentalist theory posits that it is sufficiently legitimised, indirectly, by the member state governments. Constructivist research, on the other hand, suggests that socialisation might ...
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The role of the Capital Markets Union: towards regulatory harmonisation and supervisory convergence
(Sérgio Coimbra Henriques/Essay)
(Sérgio Coimbra Henriques/Essay)
... question. Intergovernmentalist theory posits that it is sufficiently legitimised, indirectly, by the member state governments. Constructivist research, on the other hand, suggests that socialisation might ...
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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)
... is that the research into the characteristics of supranational integration has been one of the most significant fields in which the legitimation “from above” has reappeared in Western thought after a rather ...
... on its reform (European Parliamentary Research Service, Brussels). ...
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Sub-national constitutional politics: contesting or complementing, replicating or innovating, traditional constitutionalism?
(Paulus Blokker and Werner Reutter/Essay)
(Paulus Blokker and Werner Reutter/Essay)
This special issue of Perspectives on Federalism collects papers mostly presented at the General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Research in September 2014. The issue contains five papers ...
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Multilevel Systems and Sub-National Constitutional Politics in Germany: a Qualitative Comparative Analysis
(Werner Reutter/Essay)
(Werner Reutter/Essay)
... I apply a new empirical tool to the research question at hand by using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Qualitative – or Configurational – Comparative Analysis is supposed to better contextualize ...
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Crisis, emergency and subnational constitutionalism in the Italian context
(Giuseppe Martinico - Leonardo Pierdominici/Essay)
(Giuseppe Martinico - Leonardo Pierdominici/Essay)
... research on the incidence of the crisis on some specific aspects in the Italian legal context, and especially on the relationships between the coordination of budgetary and financial policies and the welfare ...
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National Supreme Courts and the EU Legal Order: Building a European Judicial Community through Networking
(Simone Benvenuti/Essay)
(Simone Benvenuti/Essay)
... of research. ...
... multiple definitions, which overlap with one another in various ways and sometimes conflict. This leads to material negative consequences for both academic research and public policy, which can no longer ...
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Overcoming the Legal Iron Curtain: Similarities and differences in the use of preliminary references between new and old Member States
(Juan A. Mayoral/Essay)
(Juan A. Mayoral/Essay)
... (1961-2011) in all 27 Member States. Besides confirming the impact of common factors already tested in the literature, this research additionally identifies some differences in the institutional dynamics ...
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Globalization and Cross-Border Cooperation in EU Law: A Transnational Research Agenda
(Anna Margherita Russo/Essay)
(Anna Margherita Russo/Essay)
This paper aims to analyse a specific dimension of the progressive transformation of the territorial/nation-state law by using the particular lens of cross-border cooperation as regulated under EU law. ...
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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)
... autonomy. Its results, albeit imperfect, are deemed positive so far. Hence, can these exceptional cases present themselves as a model, even if tailored in origin, in the research and consecration of subnational ...
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The need for sub-national constitutions in federal theory and practice. The Belgian case
(Patricia Popelier/Essay)
(Patricia Popelier/Essay)
... are expected to favor the creation of sub-national constitutions. For these reasons, the absence of real constitutional power for the sub-states in Belgium appears to be an anomaly. The research question ...
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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)
This article is the result of an ongoing research into a variety of features of Spanish local government . It aims, in particular, at providing a profile of the tools implemented by local authorities to ...