Constitutional Law in the Greek World

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Units ◽  
Greek World

This chapter discusses public law and the political institutions in the Greek poleis and other political units. The first part surveys modes of citizenship with a focus on political participation. The second provides an extensive account of deliberative bodies and procedures in the Greek poleis. The third section discusses officials, their appointment and duties, and their accountability.

Cross-Nativity Partnering and the Political Participation of Immigrant Generations

2015 ◽  
Vol 662 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Boyd ◽  
Amanda Couture-Carron
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Socioeconomic Characteristics ◽  
The Third ◽  
Immigrant Generations

This article defines cross-nativity intermarriage in four generations of Canadians and explores whether cross-nativity partnering is associated with political assimilation—in this case, similarity in voting and political activities between immigrants with native-born partners and third-plus-generation immigrants. We find that foreign-born residents with Canadian-born partners do not differ from third-plus-generation residents who have Canadian-born partners in their propensities to vote or in the number of political activities in which they participate. Conversely, the foreign-born with foreign-born partners are less likely than the third-plus generation to have voted in a previous federal election; if the foreign-born immigrated later in adolescence or in adulthood, they also are less likely to participate in other political activities. Differences in demographic and socioeconomic characteristics underlie the greater likelihood that second and third-plus generations will engage in political activities.

Reaching the Internal Tension Model

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-58
Author(s):  
Margit Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Decision Maker ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modes Of Operation ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
The Third ◽  
Executive Action

This chapter provides the basis of the model advanced in the book. Based on the internal tension model, governing constitutionalism-at-large, the chapter submits that the executive is best viewed as straddling the line between subjection to law and dominance beyond law. This is no ‘paradox:’ embodying one of the tensions ingrained in constitutional law, the executive draws on an irresolvable tension between its role as executor of law, under the separation of powers ideal, and its function as manager, or dominant decision-maker in the political sphere, in which it acts above and beyond the law. Under the internal tension model, normative theory can be better expounded, and the extent of required constraints over excessive power can be better addressed. The chapter discusses, and rejects, three models of the executive branch, all of which are based on hierarchical and dichotomous thinking. The subservient executive model connotes full supremacy of the constitution and legislation over the executive; the imperial executive model draws on a vision of executive supremacy; and the third, bipolar model offers a vision of alternating modes of operation. All are set aside in favour of a model that recognizes the internal tension which underlies executive action.

The Sound of Constitutional Silence

City, State ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 17-50
Author(s):  
Ran Hirschl
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Public Law ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Comparative Constitutional Law ◽  
Spatial Governance ◽  
Constitutional Discourse

This chapter examines four introductory dimensions of the political and constitutional discourse around cities. The first is the tremendous interest in cities throughout much of the human sciences as contrasted with the silence of public law in general, and of comparative constitutional law in particular. Next, the chapter takes a look at the dominant statist stance embedded in constitutional law, in particular as it addresses sovereignty and spatial governance of the polity. A brief account of what national constitutions actually say about cities, and more significantly what they do not is then given. Finally, the chapter turns to the tendency in political discourse on collective identity to understand the “local” almost exclusively at the national or regional levels, rather than distinguishing urban interests from those of the state. Taken together, the four angles of city constitutional (non)status examined here highlight the bewildering silence of contemporary constitutional discourse with respect to cities and urbanization, as well as the strong statist outlook embedded in national constitutional orders, effectively rendering the metropolis a constitutionally non-tenable entity.

scholarly journals Democratic institutes in the countries of the Arab East: features of development and transformation

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Islam Almughid
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political System ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Democratic Transformation ◽  
Former Ussr

The article examines the leading centers of democratic transformation in Arab countries and the formation of an institutional base for democratization processes. It is emphasized that the parameters of the political system of the Arab East are comparable to the some countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the countries of the former USSR, which reveals a problem beyond the limits of purely regional research. The attention has been focused on the socio-cultural specificities of the Arab countries as a factor requiring special attention to consider the social environment of the political system, which affects the organization of power and the specifics of political participation. It is noted that such traditional democratic institutions as active political participation, political leadership, and public activity should be considered through the prism of the traditional guidance of political Islam. It is argued that attempts to realize their own model of modernization of the political system are faced with the failure of political institutions. It is substantiated that in the Arabian countries the level of representation and realization of social interests of citizens has proved to be insufficient. The importance of the national Arab model of political adaptation of society to the conditions of globalization is considered.

Pendidikan Politik Bagi Pemilih Pemula di SMAN 1 Meureubo Kabupaten Aceh Barat

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Vellayati Hajad ◽  
Ikhsan Ikhsan
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Education ◽  
Average Score ◽  
The Political ◽  
Selection Procedures ◽  
The Third ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Political Literacy ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time

Political education is a very important thing to do in increasing the participation of first-time voters. First time voters are those aged between 17 to 24 years, but in this service the first time voters in question are the students of SMAN 1 Meureubo who are sitting in the third grade of high school and already have the right to vote. The method used in this service is by lecturing, sharing sessions, and simulations with video and practice selection procedures. The results of devotion show that the political participation of novice voters in elections is strongly influenced by the level of knowledge, understanding and literacy (political literacy) possessed by novice voters. Before the results of the pre-test activities of students' knowledge 57.25 and after getting political education through lecture methods, sharing sessions, and video simulations and practices the average score rose to 70.25. In conclusion, there was an increase in students' knowledge regarding political participation.

scholarly journals New European Constitutions: In Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croates and Slovenes

1922 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralston Hayden
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Conscious Effort ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Government ◽  
Post War

In this period during which all political institutions are being tested as never before by the searching criticism of an awakened world and by application to the well-nigh insoluble problems left by the World War, the constitutions which have been developed by the post-war states of Europe possess a peculiar interest to the student of public affairs. They are the results of the conscious effort of the statesmen of these new commonwealths to combine with the historic institutions of their own lands those features of the public law and the political practises of the older democracies which experience has proven to be workable, to be conducive of good government, and to make possible a more or less popular control over affairs of state. The product of a season when democracy is the fashion, all of these instruments are filled with rules and phrases which have a familiar ring in American ears, despite a more than occasional Gallic or native accent.

scholarly journals Senate Reform and the Political Safeguards of Canadian Federalism in Québec

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
Canadian Federalism ◽  
Core Idea

Unlike in Canada, the doctrine of political safe-guards of federalism is a tantalizing presence in American constitutional law that changing tides and moods have never completely submerged. The core idea is simple: political institutions in the United States have been designed to ensure that interests of the states are represented in the federal decision-making process. Thus, the judiciary does not need to intervene to police the federal division of powers.

A Temporal Sequence of Adolescent Political Participation: Some Israeli Data

1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nachmias
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Gradual Increase ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
The Third ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
Twelfth Grade ◽  
Western Democracies

Adolescents in Western democracies acquire participatory-related dispositions early in life. They believe that it is the obligation of the good citizen to be informed and to take a participatory role in the affairs of his community and in politics. Some children start to participate in political activities as early as the third grade; through the twelfth grade, there is a gradual increase in the number of pre-adults who engage in such activities. Variations in adolescent political participation are large, however; they have been found to be associated not only with age but also with socioeconomic status and background measures, with the adolescent's expressed political interest, with the political interest displayed by the adolescent's parents, with curricular and extra-curricular activities, and with the adolescent's social milieu.

scholarly journals Ramón de Salas y la nueva ciencia jurídica

2011 ◽  
pp. 633
Author(s):  
Ignacio Fernández Sarasola
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Public Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
Spanish Constitution ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
The University

Ramón de Salas was one of the fists theatricals of Constitutional Law in Spain. As professor at the University of Salamanca (1771-1795) he tried to modify the studies of Law, introducing the Enlightenment theories (Montesquieu, Filangieri, Beccaria, Heinnecio, Burlamaqui Wolf, Emer de Vattel, Puffendorf and Grocio). In fact, he translated some of the main European Enlightenment works by Genovesi, Montesquieu, Beccaria and Bentham. During the «Trienio Liberal», Salas wrote his most known work «Lecciones de Derecho Público Constitucional» (Lessons on Constitutional Public Law), which included not only a theoretical study, but also an analysis of the Spanish Constitution of 1812. His Lessons tried to introduce in Spain the political theories of Constant and Destutt de Tracy.Ramón de Salas fue uno de los primeros teóricos de Derecho Constitucional en España. Como profesor en la Universidad de Salamanca (1771-1795) intentó modificar los estudios de Derecho, introduciendo las teorías ilustradas (Montesquieu, Filangieri, Beccaria, Heinnecio, Burlamaqui, Wolf, Emer de Vattel, Puffendorf y Grocio).De hecho, llegó a traducir algunas de las principales obras de la Ilustración Europea elaboradas por Genovesi, Montesquieu, Beccaría y Bentham Durante el Trienio Liberal, Salas escribió su trabajo más conocido, «Lecciones de Derecho Público Constitucional», que incluían no sólo un estudio teórico, sino también un análisis de la Constitución de 1812. En esta obra, Salas intentó introducir en España las teorías políticas de Constant y Destutt de Tracy. Palabras clave: Ramón de Salas, pensamiento político, Derecho constitucional, Derecho Público

From an unconstitutional constitutional amendment to an unconstitutional constitution? Lessons from Honduras

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID E LANDAU ◽  
ROSALIND DIXON ◽  
YANIV ROZNAI
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Constitutional Amendment ◽  
The Political ◽  
Potential Utility ◽  
The People ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Comparative Constitutional Law ◽  
Global Constitutionalism

Abstract:The unconstitutional constitutional amendment doctrine has emerged as a highly successful, albeit still controversial, export in comparative constitutional law. The doctrine has often been defended as protecting a delegation from the people to the political institutions that they created. Other work has noted the doctrine’s potential utility in guarding against abusive constitutionalism. In this article, we consider how these justifications fare when expanded to encompass claims against the original constitution itself, rather than a later amendment to the text. That is, beyond the unconstitutional constitutional amendment doctrine, can or should there be a doctrine of an unconstitutional constitution? Our question is spurred by a puzzling 2015 case from Honduras where the Supreme Court held an unamendable one-term limit on presidential terms, as well as protective provisions punishing attempts to alter that limit, to be unconstitutional. What is particularly striking about the case is that these provisions were not later amendments to the constitution, but rather parts of the original 1982 constitution itself. Thus, this article examines the possibility of ‘an unconstitutional constitution’, what we predict to be the next trend in global constitutionalism.

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