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Judicial review, reasons and technology: a glance at constitutionalism and democracy [PDF]
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]
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?
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 ...
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‘Ourworld’: A feminist approach to global constitutionalism
: 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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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
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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
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The Tea Party Movement and the Perils of Popular Originalism [PDF]
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]
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
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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.
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Theocratic Legal Revolution and the Origins of Modern Secularism in Dante
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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