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How Populist Was David Cameron?
2016
The ‘rhetorical populism’ of the former prime minister's big society agenda may have waxed and waned, says Agnes Alexandre-Collier. But Cameron was an innovator of party management and governing practices whose focus on connecting with ‘the people’ transformed his party – but also supplied the means of his own downfall.
An Undying Breed? The Electoral Mobilization of Supporters’ Networks by the Conservative and Labour Parties in the UK
2020
International audience
Planning Control on the Northern European Periphery
2010
From different pasts and currently different connections to EU, Latvia and Norway in the last few years have created new legal frameworks for their national planning systems and hence for planning control. This paper explores similarities and differences between these two planning control systems and related tendencies in the revision of planning legislation adopted in recent times. Methodologically, the study makes a distinction between acting organizational subjects and the rules of the game that affect their performance. Together with the planning organization, such formal institutional factors indicate modes of planning control as well as possibilities for creating coherence across plan…
The assessment of parenting in the child welfare practice
1999
Abstract This study analyzed how parenting and factors considered as important determinants of parental care are assessed in the child welfare practice during the placement process, using ethnographic content analysis of case records. The assessment of parenting and the factors affecting it was unsystematic and unplanned with no consistency between cases. The documentary mentions concerning the quality of parent-child relationships were surprisingly rare. The descriptions concentrated more on parents' problems than problems in parenting and the qualities of the parent-child relationship. This study indicated that apart from the need for systematized assessment methods in Finnish child welfa…
How Terrorism Changed the Ways of Interpreting Hospitality
2017
The consolidation of Thana-Capitalism doubtless affected the tourism industry, but also changed the ways in which the Other is conceived. Needless to say, anthropology should play a leading role in providing new theories to understand ‘cosmopolitanism’, and the position of this global dangerous Other in Europe. Discussing and engaging directly with Derrida as well as other scholars, this chapter focuses on how hospitality is dying. The end of hospitality represents a serious challenge of Europe simply because it was ‘the alma matter’ of its rationality and social trust. At times, terrorism targets ‘the exemplary centre of consumption’ to extortionate the developed nation-states, the surveil…
La reforma del artículo 135 de la Constitución Española : ¿pueden los mercados quebrar el consenso constitucional?
2012
Este trabajo analiza la reciente reforma del artículo 135 de la Constitución española, a la luz de los principios y de la doctrina constitucional; centrándose, fundamentalmente, en el estudio crítico del procedimiento de reforma seguido, que cuestiona el consenso constitucional.This work analyzes the reform of article 135 of the Spanish Constitution which was introduced in September 2011, from the perspective of the constitutional principles as well as the decisions taken by the Constitutional Court. The focus is mainly on the analysis of the procedure followed to conduct the reform, which –it was said—severely breaks the constitutional consensus.
Informal Constitutional Changes in Romania
2015
Constitutional change has been one of the most interesting debates in the recent constitutional law scholarship. A distinction has been drawn between formal and informal constitutional changes, by using as a criterion the compliance with the requirements of the constitutional text regarding constitutional change. Usually, informal constitutional change is determined by various factors, among which the lack of clarity or the extreme rigidity of the Constitution. Constitutional Courts are among the authorities who are frequently responsible of making informal constitutional changes. The present article comprises a brief introduction on the differences between formal and informal constitutiona…
Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
2021
In 1830, Belgian Catholics and Liberals had together adopted a constitution that declared the separation of church and state. The constitutional efforts of the Catholics in Belgium, Ireland, and Poland helped convince Hugues Felicite Lamennais (1782-1854) to give up his traditionalist demands in favor of liberal and democratic ones, which he defended in the journal L’Avenir (1830/31). Lamennais can be credited with being the first theorist to draw up a body of principles justifying from a Christian perspective a constitutional order that includes basic liberal rights and the separation of church and state.
Overcoming married women’s incapacity under The Spanish Civil code
2018
La mujer ha sido marginada por el derecho civil español desde la redacción original del Código Civil de 1889, mediante sus diversas disposiciones discriminatorias, sustentadas en la protección de la mujer, equiparada con una persona incapacitada. El Código Civil español experimentó un largo y difícil recorrido, lleno de sucesivas reformas que contribuyeron a un ascenso satisfactorio de la mujer en el derecho civil. El presente artículo se enfoca en cuatro conceptos: la situación jurídica de la mujer en el siglo XIX, la igualdad de la mujer en la II República, el modelo franquista y la llegada de la democracia a España. Conjugados, todos los elementos son una herramienta para conocer en este…
Horizontal Cooperation in the Autonomous State: The Conference of Autonomous Presidents
2013
One of the most important constitutional problems in our country, and one that has not yet been solved, is precisely the territorial distribution and organisation of power. Our Constitution defined a State that could be territorially decentralised, leaving it to the Autonomy Statutes and other laws on development to give it its final shape. The State has now reached decentralisation levels that were unthinkable at the time when the Constitution was adopted. The Autonomous Communities have a consolidated institutional organisation, and they have undertaken numerous powers successfully. However, important deficiencies still exist in vertical cooperation relations—between the State and the Aut…