Title:Challenging the Commission's right of initiative? Conditions for institutional change and stability
Author(s):RASMUSSEN, AnneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the conditions under which informal institutional change between EU Treaties becomes formalised in subsequent Treaties. Recent developments in institutional theory show how formal rule changes often ...
Title:Challenging the Commission’s Right of Initiative? Conditions for institutional change and stability
Author(s):RASMUSSEN, AnneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the conditions under which informal institutional change between EU Treaties becomes formalised in subsequent Treaties. Recent developments in institutional theory show how formal rule changes often ...
Title:Charm Procedure in the XVIII Century: Restoring an order or recapturing innocence?
Author(s):COHEN, DeborahDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In eighteenth-century France, there were almost no theoretical evolutions in the judicial field. Yet, ways of judging differed between the beginning and the end of the century. This paper is based on a close reading of ...
Title:Cohousing's Relevance to Degrowth Theories
Author(s):LIETAERT, MatthieuDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In a context of ever faster globalisation, citizens and their environment are clearly put under pressure. This article introduces the cohousing movement as a model to make life more social and greener in an urban context. ...
Title:Competing Jurisdictions between MERCOSUR and WTO
Author(s):LAVRANOS, Nikolaos; VIELLIARD, NicolasDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The wider issues raised by the Brazilian Tyres case are discussed in this contribution. Regarding the institutional aspects, this case examines the difficulties between regional dispute settlement systems and the global ...
Title:Compulsory language educational policies and identity formation
Author(s):ASPACHS-BRACONS, Oriol; CLOTS-FIGUERAS, Irma; COSTA-FONT, Joan; MASELLA, PaoloDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Education can be at the root of the process of identity formation. Using survey data from Catalonia and the Basque Country, where in 1983 the education system became bilingual, we study how parental choices and schooling ...
Title:Consensus Democracy and Support for Populist Parties in Western Europe
Author(s):HAKHVERDIAN, Armen; KOOP, ChristelDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Inspired by a previous debate in Acta Politica between Rudy Andeweg and Arend Lijphart on the pros and cons of consensus democracy, this article explores whether support for populist parties is traceable to the institutional ...
Title:Constitutional Failure or Constitutional Odyssey? What can we learn from Canada and Switzerland
Author(s):MARTINICO, GiuseppeDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:According to many scholars, the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty and the disappointment caused by the contents of the Lisbon Treaty –- defined by Somek (2007) as a mere post-Constitutional Treaty – mark the failure ...
Title:Constitutionalism as a “Resource”. A constitutional approach to the development debate
Author(s):MARTINICO, GiuseppeDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, I argue that cooperation for development may be seen as a technique of 'second-modernity' constitutionalism. I base this argument on the developmental goal of correcting the asymmetries produced by economic ...
Title:Corporate Human Rights Obligations Under Stabilization Clauses
Author(s):LETNAR CERNIC, JernejDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Lawyers, economists and social scientists alike have for a number of years agreed that foreign investment has the potential to act as a catalyst for the enjoyment of an individual's fundamental human rights, particularly ...
Title:Dating Cinderella: On subsidiarity as a political safeguard of federalism in the European Union
Author(s):MARTINICO, GiuseppeDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of the debate on the subsidiarity principle. Subsidiarity is one of the most ambiguous and debated notions in law, and it definitively belongs to all the legal ...
Title:Decentralising the Active Welfare State: The relevance of intergovernmental structures in Italy and Spain
Author(s):LÓPEZ-SANTANA, Mariely; MOYER, RossellaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article contributes to the literatures on the governance of activation and the territorial structure of the welfare state by drawing attention to the institutional designs of active welfare states and the architectures ...