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Rule of Law Crisis, Judiciary and Competition Law 法治危机、司法与竞争法
Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal Pub Date : 2019-06-30 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3431631
M. Bernatt
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引用次数: 1
A Theory of Self-Enforcing Monetary Constitutions With Reference to the Suffolk System, 1825–1858 参考1825-1858年萨福克制度的自我执行货币制度理论
Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal Pub Date : 2018-10-21 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3173294
A. Salter, A. Young
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引用次数: 13
Constitutional Rights as Bribes 贿赂的宪法权利
Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal Pub Date : 2018-09-10 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3246732
Rosalind Dixon
{"title":"Constitutional Rights as Bribes","authors":"Rosalind Dixon","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3246732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3246732","url":null,"abstract":"Constitutions worldwide protect an increasingly long list of rights. Constitutional scholars point to a variety of top-down and bottom-up explanations for this pattern of rights expansion. This Article, however, identifies an additional, underexplored dynamic underpinning this pattern in certain countries: the pairing of constitutional rights with various forms of structural constitutional change as part of a trade between civil society and dominant political actors in their aspirations, or support, for constitutional change. This form of trade, the Article further suggests, has potential troubling consequences for democracy: it can pave the way for the consolidation of dominant-party or presidential rule in ways that limit the effectiveness of rights-based constitutional changes themselves and pose a major threat to the institutional “minimum core” necessary for a true democracy. This, the Article argues, suggests a greater need for caution on the part of civil society before accepting rights as a form of “bribe,” or inducement, to support certain forms of structural constitutional change. For democratic constitutional designers, it also points to the advantages of “unbundling” different forms of constitutional change. The Article explores these arguments by reference to two recent examples of constitutional change, in Ecuador and Fiji, involving the combination of rights-based change with increasingly noncompetitive forms of democratic rule.","PeriodicalId":284892,"journal":{"name":"Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132013847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 7
A Constitutional Moment for the European Rule of Law - Upcoming Landmark Decisions Concerning the Polish Judiciary 欧洲法治的宪法时刻——即将到来的关于波兰司法的里程碑式决定
Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal Pub Date : 2018-06-20 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3199809
Armin von Bogdandy, Piotr Bogdanowicz, Iris Canor, Maciej Taborowski, Matthias Schmidt
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引用次数: 3
Reforming the Justice System in the Western Balkans. Constitutional Concerns and Guarantees 改革西巴尔干地区的司法制度。宪法关注与保障
Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal Pub Date : 2018-06-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3198787
A. Anastasi
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引用次数: 3
The Great Asymmetry and the Rule of Law in International Investment Arbitration 国际投资仲裁中的大不对称与法治化
Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal Pub Date : 2017-09-30 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3152808
A. Arcuri
{"title":"The Great Asymmetry and the Rule of Law in International Investment Arbitration","authors":"A. Arcuri","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3152808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3152808","url":null,"abstract":"International investment arbitration can be said to be built on a great asymmetry: on the one hand, foreign investors are endowed with a set of significant rights, most notably the right to initiate disputes before arbitration tribunals; on the other hand, States and citizens of the host State affected by the investment do not enjoy comparable rights. This article assesses whether the in-built asymmetry of investor-state arbitration runs counter to the rule of law. Clarifying the relationship between the rule of law and the system of investment arbitration is of crucial importance, given that one of the rationales to have investor-state arbitration in international treaties is the enhancement of the rule of law; at least, many jurists so profess. While there is a rich literature (empirically) studying the effects of investment treaties on the rule of law, few studies have addressed whether the investment arbitration itself has the qualities of the rule of law. This article bridges this gap by showing how the in-built asymmetry of the system runs counter to the rule of law. Drawing on the rule of law research field, two conceptions of the rule of law - a teleological and a reflexive one – are presented and employed as basis for the the main analysis of this article. In light of the examination of the great asymmetry and of its clash with the rule of law, the article’s concluding remarks hint at possible reforms that would rebalance the asymmetry of current investment arbitration law.","PeriodicalId":284892,"journal":{"name":"Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123982263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Dynamic De/Centralization in Switzerland, 1848-2010 动态的瑞士去中心化,1848-2010
Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal Pub Date : 2017-09-27 DOI: 10.1093/PUBLIUS/PJX056
Paolo Dardanelli, S. Mueller
{"title":"Dynamic De/Centralization in Switzerland, 1848-2010","authors":"Paolo Dardanelli, S. Mueller","doi":"10.1093/PUBLIUS/PJX056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/PUBLIUS/PJX056","url":null,"abstract":"Part of the project Why Centralization and Decentralization in Federations?, this article studies \u0000dynamic de/centralization in Switzerland since 1848 and seeks to account for the patterns \u0000observed. It shows that, overall, there has been a wide-ranging process of legislative \u0000centralization, whereas the cantons have retained considerable administrative and, especially, \u0000fiscal autonomy. The principal instrument of dynamic centralization has been constitutional \u0000change, followed by the enactment of framework legislation by the federal government. The \u0000process has unfolded primarily through frequent steps of a small magnitude and occurred \u0000throughout the 160-year life of the federation. Modernization, market integration, changing \u0000patterns of collective identification, and expectations concerning the role of government appear \u0000to have played a particularly important causal role. The multilingual and bi-confessional nature of \u0000the country has not presented a major obstacle to this centralization dynamic, particularly since \u0000World War II, with the French-speaking minority becoming increasingly pro-centralization.","PeriodicalId":284892,"journal":{"name":"Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125982479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 22
Counter-Majoritarian, Representative and Enlightened: The Roles of Constitutional Courts in Democracies 反多数主义、代议制与开明:民主国家宪法法院的角色
Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal Pub Date : 2017-09-04 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3096203
Luís Roberto Barroso
{"title":"Counter-Majoritarian, Representative and Enlightened: The Roles of Constitutional Courts in Democracies","authors":"Luís Roberto Barroso","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3096203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3096203","url":null,"abstract":"The primary purpose of this Article is to examine the roles of constitutional courts in contemporary democracies. It aims to demonstrate that such courts perform, in addition to the countermajoritarian role traditionally recognized in constitutional theory, two other roles: representative and, occasionally, enlightened. In the construction of the argument, the Article analyzes the phenomena of the judicialization of politics and judicial activism, as well as the issue of the difficult demarcation of the border between law and politics in the complex and plural societies of today. Although it presents several examples of the constitutional experience of the United States, the Article’s conclusions are generalizable, looking at the roles of constitutional courts from the perspective of a global constitutionalism whose categories have become common practice in the democracies of the world.","PeriodicalId":284892,"journal":{"name":"Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127545669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Constitutional Catallaxy: Friends and Enemies in an Open-Ended Social Order 宪法催化:一个开放式社会秩序中的朋友和敌人
Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal Pub Date : 2017-05-13 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2965513
A. Salter, R. Wagner
{"title":"Constitutional Catallaxy: Friends and Enemies in an Open-Ended Social Order","authors":"A. Salter, R. Wagner","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2965513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2965513","url":null,"abstract":"Most liberal constitutional theorizing, as exemplified by Buchanan (1975) and Rawls (1971), treats societies as closed systems of human interaction. This treatment is carried forward by emphasizing the similarity between choosing constitutional rules and choosing the rules for playing a parlor game such as poker. The menu of possible rules and the desires and values of the players are taken as data, and the players agree on the rules by which they will play. We don’t deny the heuristic value of this two-stage scheme of analysis; however, we also think that exploring constitutional thought from within a framework of open system also offers useful analytical insight, as we set forth here. In our alternative framework, agreement on rules is always incomplete, for two sets of reasons. One is the limited and divided quality of knowledge (Hayek 1937, 1945). The other is the persistent present of antagonism within society, as conveyed by Carl Schmitt’s (1932) distinction between friends and enemies, and with that distinction present as well in William Riker’s (1962) theory of political coalitions.","PeriodicalId":284892,"journal":{"name":"Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal","volume":"24 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126148289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Property, Power, and Revolution in Russia, 1917-2017: Institutional Transformations in the ‘Longue Durée’ 1917-2017年俄国的财产、权力与革命:《Longue dur<s:1>》中的制度变迁
Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal Pub Date : 2017-03-05 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2946859
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
{"title":"Property, Power, and Revolution in Russia, 1917-2017: Institutional Transformations in the ‘Longue Durée’","authors":"Carsten Herrmann-Pillath","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2946859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2946859","url":null,"abstract":"This paper unfolds an analytical perspective on the evolution of property rights in Russia from Tsarist times until today, combining the theory on violence and institutions suggested by North, Wallis and Weingast with Foucault’s analysis of power in society, especially his notions of biopolitics and governmentality. I argue that a historical constant is the subordination of property rights to the biopolitics of catch-up modernization, independent from their specific form, private or public (state-owned). This is embedded in the persistence of informal and ideational structures of Empire, manifest in peculiar forms of governmentality. The bridging concept between these different phenomena is that of ‘state capacity’. State ownership under socialism and Stalinism emerged as the default solution to the challenge of weak state capacity in the Empire. In Tsarist times, the transfer of absolute private property rights from the West had resulted in a developmental stalemate. However, after the biopolitics of the war economy had shifted to cold war rivalry, socialist planning was a mere formal shell in which the informal structures of governmentality in the Soviet Empire evolved. These provided the setting in which the privatization of the 1990s resulted in the emergence of an oligarchic ownership regime, eventually morphing into Putinist state capitalism which can be interpreted as a ‘neo-patrimonial regime’. These developments can be explained by the role of rent distribution in stabilizing intra-elite conflicts. With Imperial structures still prevalent, informal governmentality remains an important means to make up for weak state capacity, thus also weakening private property rights in their role of drawing boundaries between the political and the economic system.","PeriodicalId":284892,"journal":{"name":"Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114399982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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