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The Principles of Majority and Proportionality

British Journal of Political Science, 1971
It is only in connection with electoral law that the terms ‘majority principle’ and ‘proportionality’ are widely used. It seems to us meaningful to apply the two concepts also to the political decision-making process as a whole. In this broadened sense ‘majority principle’ and ‘proportionality’ denote certain models of conflict regulation. The majority
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The Principle of Proportionality

2018
The principle of proportionality is the most oft-invoked and, in terms of its role in constitutional adjudication, the most influential principle of EU law. The principle was developed in continental legal systems, especially in Germany and France, in the twentieth century.
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The Proportionality Principle

2004
In a sample of 4,421 publicly traded firms from 14 Western European countries, we analyze the use of instruments to separate ownership from control across legal regimes. First, we confirm the negative impact on firm value from disproportional ownership structures, previously documented by Classens (2002) in our large sample of Western European firms ...
Morten Bennedsen, Kasper Meisner Nielsen
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Principle of Proportionality and The Principle of Reasonableness

Review of European Administrative Law, 2020
This paper examines a principle of particular relevance for administrative action and the concept of good administration, namely the principle of reasonableness, at the EU level, from the point of view of the Italian administrative doctrine, and jurisprudence of the Council of State.
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The Principle of Proportionality [PDF]

, 2006
Recent policy initiatives within the harmonization of European company laws have promoted a so-called "principle of proportionality" through proposals that regulate mechanisms opposing a proportional distribution of ownership and control. We scrutinize the foundation for these initiatives by analyzing the use of instruments to separate ownership from ...
Bennedsen, Morten, Meisner, Kasper, Nielsen   +1 more
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The Principle of Proportionality

2017
IMPORTANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF PROPORTIONALITY FOR EU CIVIL LAW: SOME GENERAL REMARKS “HARD LOOK” IN REVIEWING OF NATIONAL MEASURES The principle of proportionality as a constitutional principle of EU law – including EU civil law – was first developed to justify restrictions by Member States on free movement under the public policy or general ...
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Principles, balancing, and proportionality

This chapter addresses the relation between principles, balancing, and proportionality. First, it provides an overview of the most relevant views of the nature and role of principles in the law. Then it presents the different ways in which those views account for the application of principles, with a focus on balancing, as a way of reasoning and ...
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Proportionality as a Global Constitutional Principle

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This paper shows that three versions of the principle of proportionality exist in international law, and that these three have different constitutional functions. The horizontal version 1 applies, inter alia, in the field of countermeasures including self defence. The principle here refers to the relation between action (breach of international law) of
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The Principle of Proportionality

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, 2022
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Proportionality and the Precautionary Principle

Ethics, Policy & Environment, 2013
Daniel Steel addresses one of the most serious objections against the precautionary principle (PP).
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