A Collaborative Method to Overcome the Difficulty of Constitutional Amendment

Federalism-E ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
Abigail McLatchy
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Constitutional Amendment ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
Constitutional Politics ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
History Of ◽  
Canadian Political History

Constitutional politics hold a special place in Canadian political history. Demanding and difficult, the politics of the Constitution have been marked by disagreement and dissent for the entire brief history of this nation. Canada is both a multinational and territorially vast federation, thus it can only be expected that the views and demands of the diverse provinces and nations within will conflict. From this viewpoint, it seems a daunting task to unite this federation around a constitution meant to represent Canada as a harmonious and collective nation. This task has led to years of meetings concerning constitutional amendments that would properly represent and meet the demands of the provinces and Canadians as a whole, but the constitutional amendment process has proven to be extremely difficult and largely unsuccessful [...]

Institutional interests and the politics of constitutional amendment

2019 ◽  
pp. 019251211987132
Author(s):  
Anna Fruhstorfer ◽  
Michael Hein
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Constitutional Amendment ◽  
Significant Determinant ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
Constitutional Politics ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
Unique Dataset

Institutional interests are often the main determinant of day-to-day politics. However, do they also matter in the more consensus-oriented field of constitutional politics? To answer this question, this article examines the success and failure of constitutional amendment drafts. We reassess a hypothesis proposed by Donald S. Lutz more than 20 years ago, according to which the initiator of an amendment is a significant determinant of its success, that is, of its passing or not passing. This study is based on a unique dataset of successful and failed constitutional amendments, covering 18 post-socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe (1990–2014). We demonstrate that the chances of success for a given constitutional amendment are clearly driven by institutional interests: cabinet and presidential proposals have significantly higher chances of success than parliamentary and public initiatives. Additionally, success or failure also depend on the level of democracy and the rigidity of the amendment process.

The development of the movement for the communist labour at the Tyumen shipbuilding plant in days of the seven-year plan (1959-1965): the experience of microhistorical study

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-172
Author(s):  
Sergey S. Pashin ◽  
Natalia S. Vasikhovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Industrial Enterprise ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of

The article is devoted to the study of the movement for communist labour at the Tyumen Shipbuilding Plant during the period of the seven-year plan (1959-1965). The authors seek to fill a historical narrative with the particular facts connected with the peculiarities and specifics of such phenomenon as the movement for communist labour. They consider it in the context of microhistory and as the most important element of production routine. The employees of the largest industrial enterprise of Soviet Tyumen — Shipbuilding Plant in concrete historical circumstances came under the spotlight of the authors. The submitted article is written with attraction of a wide range of archival documents, taken from the funds of the State Archive of the Tyumen Region and also funds of the State Archive of Socio-Political History of the Tyumen Region. Having studied the documents the authors come to conclusion that the movement for communist labour had little effect on the production progress of the plant employees.

A Russian Island in the Orthodox East: Mount Athos in the 19th – early 20th Centuries

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Лора Герд ◽  
Lora Gerd
Keyword(s):  
The Balkans ◽  
Special Place ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich

Mount Athos holds a special place in the East Christian world. The Russian monastery foun-ded in the 11th century experienced its height in the 19th – early 20th centuries, when it received an official title “Russian” and its brethren numbered up to 1800 people. The deep respect towards the Holy Mount in Russia, the diplomatic support from the Russian Embassy at Constantinople and the rich donations contributed to the prosperity of “Russian Athos”. The systematic indepth study of the sources made it possible to rewrite the history of this unique phenomenon on the Balkans.

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