ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order
- (Essay)
- ... the fundamentals of Canadian constitutional democracy and the rule of law. A former secessionist government in Quebec had used the sovereignty concept to claim a right to unilaterally declare independence ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 2. Federalism and institutional structure
- (Editorial)
- Giacomo Delledonne As I am writing these lines, institutional developments on both sides of the Atlantic have shown, once again, how complex the interplay of federalism and democracy is. In the ...
- Created on 22 March 2024
- 3. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration
- (Essay)
- ... of Union funds would be affected by corruption. Finally, in 2022, following several attempts and a decade after the first report of the European Parliament on the decline of democracy in Hungary, by activating ...
- Created on 22 January 2024
- 4. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries
- (Essay)
- ... theory, a senate mediates the relationship between democracy and federalism because it enables subnational participation in national government. Recent literature challenges this assumption and provides ...
- Created on 06 December 2022
- 5. Intellectual Prejudice and Institutional Shortcomings. The Risks for the Next Generation EU
- (Essay)
- Despite the fact that during the pandemic emergency the European Union managed to provide an ambitious and courageous response, in contrast to previous decisions, the intergovernmental method undermines ...
- Created on 04 April 2022
- 6. The EU-Member State Relationship as a Principal-Agent Problem
- (Essay)
- ... causes for the complexity of the European Union – Member State relationship. One of them are the shortcomings of the EU bureaucracy; the other cause – postulating the European Union as a value community ...
- Created on 21 October 2021
- 7. By Way of Introduction
- (Editorial)
- ... in September and October 2021. The second sessions are now set to start. Aside from its outcome, it is hard to underestimate the relevance of the Conference process, an experiment in participatory democracy ...
- Created on 22 September 2021