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Despite the importance of second chambers to the success of constitutional democracies around the world, today many fundamental questions about bicameralism remain understudied and undertheorized. What makes bicameral reform so difficult? Why choose bicameralism over unicameralism? What are the constitutional values of bicameralism? This innovative book addresses these questions and many more from comparative, doctrinal, empirical, historical and theoretical perspectives.
L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari ha una sua storia fatta di docenti, artisti, studenti a loro volta diventati artisti e docenti. I nomi degli artisti selezionati per questo primo volume sono quelli di chi l’Accademia l’ha fondata – come Raffaele Spizzico, Roberto De Robertis, Michele Depalma – di chi l’ha promossa nei più importanti circuiti dell’arte contemporanea, come Mimmo Conenna, di chi ha portato avanti il senso più profondo di un’arte intesa anche come mestiere, come Mario Colonna, per arrivare ai contemporanei, Beppe Sylos Labini, Paolo Lunanova e Pippo Patruno. Cristiano De Gaetano, già studente dell’Accademia in tempi recenti, purtroppo morto prematuramente, ...
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In Parliamentary Diplomacy in European and Global Governance, 27 experts from all over the world analyse the fast-expanding phenomenon of parliamentary diplomacy. Through a wealth of empirical case studies, the book demonstrates that parliamentarians and parliamentary assemblies have an increasingly important international role. The volume begins with parliamentary diplomacy in Europe, because the European Parliament is one of the strongest autonomous institutional actors in world politics. The study then examines parliamentary diplomacy in relations between Europe and third countries or regions (Mexico, Turkey, Russia, the Mediterranean), before turning attention to the rest of the world: North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. This pioneering volume confirms the worldwide nature and salience of parliamentary diplomacy in contemporary global politics.
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Exploring the balanced budget rule as an economic standard and as a legal principle, this book explains the context and content of the balanced budget rule and presents a critical appraisal of its impact on legal systems, political institutions and social values, and particularly an evaluation of its constitutionalization in the European and national legal systems. Examining a range of perspectives on the balanced budget rule as a legal principle, a series of chapters investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of the balanced budget rule. The book considers the impact this may have on the separation of powers within the state, on democratic decision-making, on the European social model an...