21.
Sub-national Constitutionalism in Austria: a Historical Institutionalist Perspective
(Ferdinand Karlhofer/Essay)
(Ferdinand Karlhofer/Essay)
... Austria has rather weak structures with regard to power-sharing. No wonder, given the structural bias between central state and substates, informal forces are at work in order to make up for the shortcomings ...
22.
Reform options for the EU budget – First reflections on the new departure for a new EU budget
(Mario Kölling/Essay)
(Mario Kölling/Essay)
... important occasion and stimulus to reform the financing of the budget and to readjust the spending structure. ...
... play in different arenas. The parliamentary parties are responsible to organize the workings of the European Parliament (EP) and have developed strong organizational structures over time. In contrast, ...
24.
Multilevel Systems and Sub-National Constitutional Politics in Germany: a Qualitative Comparative Analysis
(Werner Reutter/Essay)
(Werner Reutter/Essay)
Are sub-national constitutional politics shaped by multilevel structures or by sub-national factors? That is the question I am tackling with in this paper. In order to answer this question I will examine ...
25.
The politics of sub-national constitutions and local government in Ethiopia
(Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele/Essay)
(Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele/Essay)
... regional states to use its constitution, among others, to design and adopt a system and structure of local government fitting to its circumstances. This is particularly important since the regional states ...
... the existence of two distinct federal structures – the federal state and the federal union of states – where before only the former was known. It thus leads to identification of the presently unidentified ...
27.
European Citizens… Mind the Gap! Some Reflections on Participatory Democracy in the EU
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
... “organisational structures whose members have objectives and responsibilities that are of general interest and who also act as mediators between the public authorities and citizens”, as well as multi-level ...
28.
Thinking ahead of disasters. The role of risk regulation in the European Union
(Marta Simoncini/Essay)
(Marta Simoncini/Essay)
... at achieving resilience against disasters. Being resilient means having the abilities to resist, adapt to stressful changes and to bounce back to the original structure. In a resilience-oriented context, ...
29.
The Territoriality of Fiscal Solidarity: Comparing Swiss Equalisation with European Union Structural Funding
(Sean Mueller - Soeren Keil/Essay)
(Sean Mueller - Soeren Keil/Essay)
... if, and how, the fiscal dimension of federalism matters for feelings of solidarity, reciprocity, unity and, ultimately, for the legitimacy of the very (nation-state or Union) structures that are to contribute ...
30.
New Evidence of Asian Economic Integration: Prospects and Challenges of a Trilateral FTA between China, Japan and South Korea
(Yuming Cui/Essay)
(Yuming Cui/Essay)
... intra-regional trade volume and stimulate economic growth in all three counties. However, given the tremendous differences in economic structure and development stage between the three countries as well ...
31.
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)
On 30 March 2007, Italy signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and ratified it by Law 18/2009. Through this, Italy has committed itself to reforming the structure ...
32.
Globalization and Cross-Border Cooperation in EU Law: A Transnational Research Agenda
(Anna Margherita Russo/Essay)
(Anna Margherita Russo/Essay)
... In order to do so, I have structured the article into two parts: the first part recalls the main features of the so-called transnational law (polycentrism, non-exclusivity of state actors in the law-making ...
33.
The Importance of Consistent Interpretation in Subnational Constitutional Contexts: Old Wine in New Bottles?
(Giuseppe Martinico/Essay)
(Giuseppe Martinico/Essay)
... to fully fledged federal states) especially looking at the lower courts. This paper is structured as follows: first, I am going to recall the debate on the consequences- in terms of legal uncertainty- ...
34.
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)
... constitutionalism. The sovereign constitutional norms are the same and the Basic Laws – such as the Joint Declarations - are essentially identical; that is, the normative superstructure has a high degree ...
35.
Efficiency as a descriptive variable of autonomous electoral systems in Spain
(Jaume Magre Ferran/Essay)
(Jaume Magre Ferran/Essay)
... decision to look to countries with multi-level political structures for inspiration. This paper puts forward the hypothesis that the electoral system in communities which form part of the endogenous party ...
36.
European cooperation in counter-terrorism and the case of individual sanctions
(Giulia Gargantini/Essay)
(Giulia Gargantini/Essay)
... the shortcomings regarding the institutional structure of the European Union during the pre-Lisbon period and the problems ensuing from the UN regime of financial sanctions, most namely as regards fundamental ...
... attempts of building typologies. Focusing on the essential dimension of the strength of the demands regarding the preferred state structure and the future of their region, we will suggest a renewed typology ...
... could be included. However, federalism has not been clearly defined and there are several concerns about its form, structure and limits. The question whether this federalism will be ethno-sectarian or ...
... menu that allows users to know their position on the website structure and the title of the page they are visiting. The structure is hyper textual and, with a simple click on the text of the navigation ...