Democracy and constitutionalism in the European Union.
This collection of essays brings together Mancini's most important writings in English, which concentrate largely on the issues of democracy, constitutionalism and individual rights in the European Union. The book presents the perspective of someone who witnessed the birth of European integration, contributed to it at a later stage in life.
Summary: This collection of essays brings together the late Federico Mancini's most important writings in English, which concentrate largely on the issues of democracy, constitutionalism and individual rights in the European Union.
While constitutionalism refers to limited government to divide and restrain state power, democracy refers to the unlimited exercise of the state power. In real sense majorities should be able to control all the government as stipulated in the pure majoritarian form of democracy.
This comprehensive discussion of the problems inherent in constitutional democracy will be of interest to students in a variety of social sciences. It illuminates particularly the current efforts of many countries, especially in Latin America, to establish stable democratic regimes.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays by a constitutionalist and a political sociologist examines how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate and effective constitutional arrangements providing for bonds of democratic citizenship.
Summary: This book brings together Federico Mancini's work, covering the issues of democracy, constitutionalism and individual rights in the European Union.
Democracy and constitutionalism in the European Union: collected essays. Add to My Bookmarks Export citation. Type Book Author(s) Mancini, G. F. Date 2000 Publisher Hart Pub place Oxford ISBN-10 1841131148. This item appears on. List: European Union Law Section.
Justin Collings. Authored by one of Germany's most prominent constitutional scholars of the last fifty years. Contains essays by not yet published in the English language, with translations by Justin Collings. Grimm's criticism of the current nature of the EU's path to integration carries value, and provides recommendations for improvement.
While the impact of the enlargement on the constitutional structures and practices of the EU has already generated a rich scholarly literature, the influence of the accession on constitutionalism, democracy, human rights and the rule of law among the new member states has been largely ignored.
However Dehousse (15) argues that the argument that there is a democratic deficit is fundamentally flawed and that the EU encounters similar problems with democracy as are encountered in domestic systems and that some of the “loudest complaints over a European democratic deficit may be based on idealisations of democracy in the nation-state”.
This collection of essays brings together the late Federico Mancini's most important writings in English, which concentrate largely on the issues of democracy, constitutionalism and individual rights in the European Union.
Keywords: Constitutionalism, democracy, fundamental rights, good governance, sustainable development. 1. Introduction Constitutional government, rooted in liberal political ideas, originated in Western Europe and the limited state as a defense of the individual’s right to life and property, and to freedom of religion and speech. In order to.
Democracy and constitutionalism in the European Union: collected essays Author(s) Mancini, G. F. Date 2000 Publisher Hart Pub place Oxford ISBN-10 1841131148. This item appears on. List: European Union Law Section: Other sources: Next.
