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ABSTRACT Cuba is the oldest and most consolidated autocracy in the Americas. Its Revolution in 1959, the charisma of Fidel Castro, the single‐party system and the US embargo have made the island an exceptional case. However, recent developments such as popular protests, limited reforms, emigration or socio‐economic decline are bringing about some ...
Armando Chaguaceda, Susanne Gratius
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Inspired by recent Hungarian legislative developments that, in reference to the Roma minority, exchanged the term “ethnic minority” with “nationality”, by providing a detailed case study of the development and morphology of policy measures and frameworks
Andras L. Pap
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A New Constitutionalism for Liberals? [PDF]
It has been apparent for at least a decade that liberal constitutional theory is in deep trouble. Of course there are many versions of liberal constitutional theory, but they have essentially no connection to existing practices of constitutional law ...
Tushnet, Mark V.
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Unionists as 'court sceptics': exploring elite-level unionist discourses about a Northern Ireland Bill of Rights [PDF]
One of the most significant characteristics of the peace process in Northern Ireland has been the profound importance attached by a range of academic, political and non-governmental actors to the concept of human rights.
Munce, Peter
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ABSTRACT Seeing the EU roughly as a political system designed to remove the most essential political decisions from democratic control, while in a large part abiding by legal frameworks, we could speak about an opposition between technocratic legalism and democracy.
Dimitry V. Kochenov +1 more
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Retrospective of Human Rights Activities of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations
The article provides a retrospective analysis of the human rights activities of the World Federation of Ukrainian Organizations (WFUO), which unites Ukrainian diaspora structures in the struggle for the rights of Ukrainians in the world.
I. V. Periv
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The Social Contract in the European Union's Context
ABSTRACT This article revisits social contract theory through a dialogue between Jule Goikoetxea Mentxaka and Antoni Abat i Ninet, questioning whether classical and contemporary contractarianism can account for structural forms of domination that precede and shape consent.
Antoni Abat i Ninet +1 more
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Konstytucjonalizm a populizm – wymiar teoretyczny
In recent years the relations between constitutionalism and populism arouse controversy. Some of the authors argue that any form of populism threatens the fundamental values and principles of ...
Michał Bożek
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The foundations of transformative private law in South Africa
This article problematises a shallow understanding of "transformative private law" as being a simple merger of constitutional rights and private law. Instead, feeding into international discourse on transformative private law, it is argued that a South ...
Emile Zitzke
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Jack Balkin’s Rich Historicism and Diet Originalism: Health Benefits and Risks for the Constitutional System [PDF]
In Living Originalism, Jack Balkin reasons from two points of view — the perspective of the constitutional system as a whole and the perspective of the faithful participant in that system.
Siegel, Neil S.
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