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Judicial review, reasons and technology: a glance at constitutionalism and democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Judicial review reflects the level of commitment between constitutionalism and democracy in contemporary States. Yet democracy as the sovereign government of the people implies a tension with constitutionalism as the rule of law.
Karam de Chueiri, Vera
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Constitutions for the 21st Century: Emerging Patterns-The EU, Iraq, Afghanistan… [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Professor Mallat delivered the Third Annual Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in Comparative Law in 2004 and this article is based on his remarks.
Michailakis, Dimitris, Schirmer, Werner
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Political Constitutionalism and Legal Constitutionalism—an Imaginary Opposition?

open access: yesOxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2020
Abstract This article argues that the opposition between political and legal constitutionalism can be traced to a cleavage in what philosophers have called the ‘social imaginary’: the shared understandings that underpin social life. Since social imaginary understandings are by their nature nebulous and ill-defined, political and legal ...
openaire   +4 more sources

‘Ourworld’: A feminist approach to global constitutionalism

open access: yesGlobal 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Authoritarian Drift, Variegated Paths: Mapping Administrative Transformation Strategies Under Illiberal Rule

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a typology of illiberal rule by identifying four distinct models of administrative transformation: neoauthoritarian, neopatrimonial, neoreactionary, and neoclientelist. Drawing on cases including Viktor Orbán, Donald Trump, Javier Milei, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, it argues that illiberal leaders reshape ...
Michael W. Bauer
wiley   +1 more source

Formation of Early National Constitutionalism from the Second Half of the Seventeenth to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Centuries

open access: yesТеорія і практика правознавства
The relevance of the topic lies in the need to disprove the pseudo-scientific statements of the political leadership of the Russian Federation concerning absence of a historical tradition of Ukrainian state-building and national constitutionalism.
Anatolii Kozachenko, Yuliia Perebyinis
doaj   +1 more source

The Tea Party Movement and the Perils of Popular Originalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The Tea Party movement presents something of a curiosity for constitutional theory because it combines originalist ideology and popular constitutionalist methods. Like minotaurs, werewolves, and other half-man, half-animal hybrids of myth and legend, the
Goldstein, Jared A.
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Constitutionalism and democratic transitions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The book - as the outcome of a research performed by the University of Florence and the United States Institute of Peace of Washington - explores the role of law in the process of democratic transition in South Africa. More specifically it emphasize how constitutional law may contribute to "civilize" apparently unreconcilable conflicts, a part from ...
FUSARO, CARLO, FEDERICO, VERONICA
openaire   +4 more sources

Evaluating Citizen Participation: A Proposal for Multivariate Analysis of Its Potential and Obstacles From Development Interventions

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Citizen participation in public policy and development projects has gained critical importance, particularly in the context of international cooperation. This paper introduces the Citizen Participation Index (CitPI), a novel tool designed to measure the capacity of citizen participation to influence public policies effectively.
Luciano Barbosa de Lima   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theocratic Legal Revolution and the Origins of Modern Secularism in Dante

open access: yesSíntesis. Revista de Filosofía, 2019
This article discusses an anti-sovranist variant of political theology. Recent work on the sociology of modern constitutionalism has identified its source in the so-called Papal legal revolution that proclaimed the autonomy of the Church in relation to ...
Miguel Vatter
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