Abstract: Discrimination and identity threat are two major clues for the origin of ethno-politico conflict in our time. Different conflicts require different kinds of political solution. Some ethno-political conflicts can be settled through the cultural autonomy, while some strongly demand...

The ways of decision making within the EU have significantly changed in the last decades: the rule of unanimity has been more and more substituted by majority voting in order to speed up decision-making processes in a Union of 27 heterogeneous member states. A third possibility is now offered by...

This paper is an exercise in conceptual clarification. Its purpose is to explore the contribution that constitutional economics can make to the theory of democracy. Constitutional economics as the economics of rules is concerned with the study of how the choice of rules in the social, economic...