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The Constitutional Identity of Contemporary China
In The Constitutional Identity of Contemporary China: The Unitary System and Its Internal Logic, Han Zhai offers a profound understanding of China’s constitutional history with her account of constitutional identity of multi-layered states in other parts of the world. This book successfully bridges China’s constitutional complex and the emerging common theory of constitutional law with methodological innovations. In constitutional comparison, this work’s treatment of the Kingdoms of Spain and the Netherlands provides effective structural and historical analysis. This book does not only awaken China’s constitutional identity in contemporary scholarship but also presents rich possibilities in the constitutional study and the way we understand a country’s fundamental arrangements in its national context
A Crise do Estado de Direito na União Europeia e o Papel do TJUE
Num período histórico-político marcado, inter alia, por uma crise de saúde pública sem precedentes na História da UE e pela invasão russa da Ucrânia, a União confronta-se com uma profunda crise, a «crise do Estado de Direito». No presente estudo, após uma breve análise da conceção do Estado de Direito ao nível da União Europeia e dos contornos das violações sistémicas daquele valor, indaga-se se os mecanismos de natureza política edificados para a respetiva salvaguarda são suficientes, per se, para travar a erosão do Estado de Direito na Hungria e na Polónia. De seguida, procede-se à análise da jurisprudência recente do TJUE face aos ataques ao Estado de Direito (em especial, na perspetiva da independência do poder judicial) e o respetivo impacto. Por fim, refletindo sobre os desafios que marcarão o rumo da construção europeia, propõem-se algumas soluções para a crise axiológica em curso.
Social Movements and Referendums from Below
In recent years, social movements on the left have increasingly begun to make themselves felt in referendums. This has been seen throughout Europe: in votes regarding independence in Scotland and Catalonia, on water rights in Italy, on debt repayment in Iceland, and on the financial proposals of the troika in Greece. This book presents case studies of those referendums and more to analyze the ways that social movements formed in the wake of the 2008 crash have affected referendums' development and outcomes. Looking at general issues of democracy, as well as the political effects of neoliberalism, this book is ideally suited to help us understand some of the issues around Brexit and will be read by a wide audience interested in social movements, referendums, and democratic innovation.
Claims for Secession and Federalism
This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts. The debate has rarely been more important than it is right now, especially in light of recent events in Catalonia, Scotland, Québec and the Sudan - all unique political contexts raising similar questions about how best to balance competing claims for autonomy, interdependence, political voice, and exit. Exploring how various nations have encountered comparable conflicts, some more and some less successfully, the book broadens the perspectives of scholars, government officials, and citizens struggling to resolve sovereignty conflicts with a full appreciation of the underlying principles they represent.
Supervising Electoral Processes
This publication contains the reports presented at the seminar entitled "Supervising Processes", organised in Madrid on 24 and 25 April 2009 by the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in co-operation with the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC). This was the first UniDem (Universities for Democracy) seminar which compared the legal situation in Europe with that of the United States and Latin America. The aim of the seminar was to study the ways of making electoral legislation effective. It addressed electoral disputes from a procedural as well as from a substantive point of view. It also demonstrated the different approaches taken in Europe, where disputes are generally dealt with by constitutional or ordinary courts, and Latin America, where specialised courts have been established. The seminar dealt with the role of international judicial instances, such as the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in guaranteeing the quality of the electoral process, as well as with the control of electoral campaign financing.
The Canadian Contribution to a Comparative Law of Secession
This edited collection gathers together Canadian and non-Canadian scholars to reflect on and celebrate the 20thanniversary of the Quebec Secession Reference, delivered by the Canadian Supreme Court in 1998. It opens withtwo Canadian scholars exchanging thoughts on the legacy of the reference from a domestic perspective as one ofthe most questioned decisions of the Canadian Supreme Court. To follow, non-Canadian scholars discuss theimpact of this reference abroad, reflecting upon its influence in European and non-European contexts (Spain,Scotland, the EU after Brexit, Eastern European Countries, Ethiopia, and Asia). Two final chapters, one by a lawyerand one by a political scientist, explore the democratic theory behind that reference.
La Iniciativa Legislativa Popular y de los Ayuntamientos en el Ordenamiento Autonómico Español
El trabajo se centra en el análisis de la iniciativa legislativa popular que algunas comunidades autónomas reconocen a los órganos representativos de los entes locales . Se parte de la evolución de la participación directa a través de la historia y su implantación en sistemas representativos como el español. Se hace un estudio comparativo de toda la regulación para tratar de ver cuáles son las dificultades que han ocasionado que este tipo de iniciativas no hayan tenido los resultados esperados. En ese análisis comparativo, el trabajo se centra en la regulación de los mecanismos de democracia directa tanto en el ámbito estatal, como el autonómico y el local y se recogen los resultados prácticos de ese reconocimiento. Palabras clave: Participación directa. Iniciativa legislativa popular. Sistema representativo. Iniciativa de los entes locales.
Handbook of Electoral System Choice
The topic of electoral reform is an extremely timely one. The accelerated expansion of the number of new democracies in the world generates increasing demands for advice on the choice of electoral rules; at the same time, a new reformism in well established democracies seeks new formulas favoring both more representative institutions and more accountable rulers. This book addresses the theoretical and comparative issues of electoral reform in relation to democratization, political strategies in established democracies and the relative performance of different electoral systems. Case studies on virtually every major democracy or democratizing country in the world are included.
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