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This article introduces a novel database that measures governments' compliance with national constitutions. It combines information on de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we...
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A major characteristic of the European Union is its transitional or evolving nature, in particular with regard to the assignment of powers between the two main levels of government. More precisely, under current constitutional arrangements, this evolving nature takes the form of an integration...
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-sourced constitution bill from 2009 to 2014, and also offers an explanation as to why the bill failed to be passed by Parliament … influence, let alone contest, a national referendum on a new constitution because, if they didn't like the result, they would … well founded or not (and they are not), are irrelevant because Parliament held a national referendum on 20 October 2012 in …
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constitutional bill are impossible to establish, an analysis of the Icelandic constitution-writing efforts as 'digital democracy …' reveals some important lessons. High-quality input into constitution-making processes through digital participation is …
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-crash constitutional revision process launched in 2009. Also, the paper offers a brief account of some aspects of the constitution …-making process during 2010-2013, including the work of the Constituent Assembly. Further, the paper describes Parliament's ongoing … national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …
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's constitution. Using historical data dating back to the 19th century and applying a difference-in-difference approach we find that … instrumenting the probability of having budget rules on de jure constraints on changing the constitution. This and other tests …
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This paper reviews aspects of the constitution making process in Iceland after the financial collapse of 2008 …, emphasizing the differences between the provisional constitution of 1944 when Iceland separated unilaterally from Nazi …-occupied Denmark and Denmark's 1849 constitution which served, with notable exceptions, as the prototype for Iceland’s 1944 …
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We introduce democratic mechanisms where individual utilities are not observable by other people at the legislative stage. We show that the combination of three rules can yield e±cient provision of public projects: first, flexible and double majority rules where the size of the majority depends...
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Members of Parliament (MPs) was instrumental in this. We find that three factors influenced their rebellion calculus: the MP …
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We investigate the effect of electoral rules and political regimes on fiscal policy outcomes in a panel of 61 democracies from 1960 and onwards. In presidential regimes, the size of government is smaller and less responsive to income shocks, compared to parliamentary regimes. Under majoritarian...
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