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Constitutionalism, Division of Power and Transaction Costs [PDF]
According to many democracy theorists, there is an unavoidable trade-off between constitutionalism and the need for political action. This paper criticizes that belief.
Berggren, Niclas, Karlson, Nils
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The Constitutionality of Prorogation
Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel, 2011 At 10:20 a.m. on 4 December 2008 — some forty minutes after Prime Minister Stephen Harper entered Rideau Hall to request that the Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, prorogue Canada’s fortieth Parliament — the media re- ported an exciting development: the front doors opened.
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European Journal of Political Research, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1849-1871, November 2025.Abstract Political parties face inherent risks when making election promises, as voters tend to penalize them for unfulfilled commitments. Nonetheless, parties make hundreds of promises. Why do parties engage in such precarious behaviour? I argue that parties employ a policy‐committing strategy when they need to increase the credibility of their policy
MATHIAS BUKH VESTERGAARD
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The Lisbon Treaty: a constitutional document, not a constitution–a British perspective [PDF]
, 2010 The European Union has undergone a constitutional transformation in the past half century. It has evolved from its origins as the European Economic Community, promoting economic integration, into a supranational polity that has come to be perceived in
Bremner, Phillip
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Prospects for Constitutionalization of the WTO [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 AbstractThis paper seeks to evaluate the prospects for constitutional reform of the WTO by drawing on the broader literature on constitutionalization. In particular, it argues that constitutionalization implies a coherent civil society, linked to the constitutionalized entity via democratic politics.
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Freedom as Non‐Domination, Rules, and the Pandemic
Bioethics, Volume 39, Issue 9, Page 834-841, November 2025.ABSTRACT This paper examines the ways in which public health measures taken to contain the spread of COVID‐19 impacted the freedom of those affected, understanding freedom as non‐domination. It argues that, in the absence of effective vaccines, individuals who carry a virus with the profile of COVID‐19 have the capacity to impose high risks of severe ...
M. Victoria Costa
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A sense of self-suspicion: global legal pluralism and the claim to legal authority [PDF]
, 2015 Legal pluralism has become common currency in many contemporary debates on law and globalization. Its main claim is that a form of global legal pluralism represents both the most accurate description of law in times of globalization and the best ...
Croce, Mariano, Goldoni, Marco
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European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 55, Issue 6, Page 1032-1051, October 2025.ABSTRACT Research highlights the long‐term collective effects of mass human rights violations (MHRVs) on survivors’ wellbeing. This multi‐method, multi‐context paper combines the social identity approach (SIA), transitional and social justice theories and human rights‐conceptualised wellbeing to propose a human rights understanding of trauma responses ...
Blerina Kёllezi +6 more
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Minobe Tatsukichi – Interpreter of Constitutionalism in Japan [PDF]
, 1968 Frank O. Miller
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