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Quantifying gerrymandering using the vote distribution [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 To assess the presence of gerrymandering, one can consider the shapes of districts or the distribution of votes. The "efficiency gap," which does the latter, plays a central role in a 2016 federal court case on the constitutionality of Wisconsin's state legislative district plan.
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The persistence of colonial constitutionalism in British Overseas Territories
Global Constitutionalism, 2019 : This article argues that despite the UK Government’s exaltations of self-determination of its Overseas Territories, provisions of colonial governance persist in their constitutions. Further, it posits that such illustrations begin to answer the broader
Hakeem O Yusuf, T. Chowdhury
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Adam Smith's hopes for a liberal America
Economic Affairs, EarlyView.Abstract Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was first published on the cusp of the American Revolution in the turbulent spring of 1776. In his discussion of the current relationship between Great Britain and her American colonies, Smith expresses optimism regarding the future success of America despite the fact she had not yet declared independence.
Michaela Loughran, Daniel B Klein
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Revitalization of EU Constitutionalism [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 This article argues that, despite the negative historical experience, nothing in the nature of constitutionalism as a concept stands in the way of the European Union (EU) eventually adopting a constitution, and so turning its tacit and silent constitutionalism into an explicit project.
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The Dialectic of Backsliding: Thinking with Habermas About Democratic Progress and Regression
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract There is widespread agreement that we are living in an age of “democratic backsliding,” in which a growing number of formally democratic countries are falling behind previously achieved levels of democratization. But on what grounds can we claim that one level of democratic development is “higher” or “lower” than another?
Fabio Wolkenstein
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Europe's Super‐Rich: Towards Oligarchic Constitutional Order
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article addresses an important but understudied puzzle in European Union Studies: the super‐rich's influence on domestic and transnational discourses, policies and institutions for wealth defence, security and legitimacy. It examines the super‐rich's impact on democratic governance and human rights claims of marginalized groups, and how ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Political legitimacy and European monetary union: contracts, constitutionalism and the normative logic of two-level games [PDF]
, 2015 The crisis of the euro area has severely tested the political authority of the European Union (EU). The crisis raises questions of normative legitimacy both because the EU is a normative order and because the construction of economic and monetary union ...
Bellamy, R, Weale, A
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The Census and the Second Law: An Entropic Approach to Optimal Apportionment for the U.S. House of Representatives [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 The Constitutionally mandated task of assigning Congressional seats to the various U.S. States proportional to their represented populations ("according to their numbers") has engendered much contention, but rather less consensus. Using the same principles of entropic inference that underlie the foundations of information theory and statistical ...
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‘Ourworld’: A feminist approach to global constitutionalism
Global Constitutionalism, 2019 : Global constitutionalism offers a utopian picture of the future of international law. Its advocates suggest a governance system is emergent that will fill the gaps in legitimacy, democracy and the rule of law present in international law.
R. Houghton, Aoife O’Donoghue
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