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TL;DR: In this paper, a set of hypotheses on the causes and consequences of party behaviour in EU Treaty referendums is developed and reviewed for the EU member states in which a referendum was held or anticipated.
Abstract: This article examines political party behaviour around the referendums on the EU Constitutional Treaty in 2005. Starting from the presumption that this behaviour needs to be analysed in the light of the domestic government-opposition dynamics, a set of hypotheses on the causes and consequences of party behaviour in EU Treaty referendums is developed and reviewed for the EU member states in which a referendum was held or anticipated. As it turns out, with the exception of some right-conservative parties, all mainstream parties endorsed the Constitutional Treaty. However, because significant proportions of opposition party supporters are bound to go to the ‘No’ side, government parties are eventually crucial in securing a majority in favour of EU Treaty revisions.
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12 Jan 2008TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the structure of Anglo-American political discouse and the role of the Church of England in the formation of the United Kingdom and the United States.
Abstract: Introduction: the structure of Anglo-American political discouse 1. Law, Religion and Sovereignty 2. Constitutional Innovations and their English Antecedents 3. The genesis of political discourse 4. Transatlantic ties and their failure 5. The Commonwealth paradigm 6. Denominational discourse 7. The implications of theological conflict 8. Denominational dynamics and political rebellions Part I. The Conflict Between Laws: Sovereignty and State Formation in the Uniter Kingdom and United States: 1. Law, nationality and nationalism: monarchical allegiance and identity 2. The creation of the United Kingdom, 1536-1801: religion and the origins of the common-law doctrine of sovereignty 3. Sovereignty and political theory from Justinian to the English jurists 4. Natural law versus common law: the polarisation of a common idiom 5. Sovereignty, dissent, and the American rejection of the British state 6. Sovereignty and the New Republic: the American constitution in transatlantic perspective Part II. The Conflict Between Denominations: The Religious Identity of Early Modern Societies: 1. Before redefinition: politics and religion in the old society 2. Anglicanism as an agency of state formation: the question of establishment 3. Canon law, heterodoxy and the American perception of tyranny 4. The Anglican ascendancy as the hegemony of discourse 5. The Anglican dream: harmony and conflict in the English parish 6. The Anglican nightmare: sectarian diversity in colonial America Part III. Predispositions: Rebellion and its Social Constituencies in the English Atlantic Empire, 1660-1800: 1. Rebellions and their analysis in the Anglo-American tradition 2. Covenanters, Presbyterians and Whigs: resistance to the Stuarts in England and Scotland, 1660-1689 3. Colonial American rebellions, 1660-1689, and transatlantic discourse 4. The rights of Englishmen, the rhetoric of slavery, and rebellions in Britain and America, 1689-1760 5. The right of resistance and its sectarian preconditions in north America, 1760-1799 6. The rhetoric of resistance and its social constituencies in England and Ireland, 1733-1828: some transatlantic analogies 7. Denominations, social constituencies and their activation Part IV. Political Mobilisation: The American Revolution as a War of Religion: 1. The American Revolution as a civil war 2. Predispositions, accelerators and catalysts: the role of theology 3. Heterodox and orthodox in the Church of England 4. The divisions and disruptions of English dissent 5. Heterodoxy and rebellion in colonial America, 1760-1776 Conclusion: 'Desolating Devastation': The Origins of Anglo-American Divergence.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the decline and re-creation of the English legal profession in the 18th and 19th centuries apprenticeship and legal education, law, lawyers and the social history of England, 1500-1850 the place of Magna Carta and the "ancient constitution" in 16th-century English legal thought courts, legal discourse, and political consciousness in early 17th century England.
Abstract: Litigants and attorneys in King's Bench and common pleas, 1590-1640 interpersonal conflict and social tension - civil litigation in England, 1640-1830 litigation, state and society in England, 1200-1990 the decline and re-creation of the English legal profession in the 18th and 19th centuries apprenticeship and legal education in the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries law, lawyers and the social history of England, 1500-1850 the place of Magna Carta and the "ancient constitution" in 16th-century English legal thought courts, legal discourse, and political consciousness in early 17th-century England.
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09 Apr 2015
TL;DR: New constitutionalism and world order: general introduction Stephen Gill and A. Claire Cutler Part I. as mentioned in this paper The rule of law as the grundnorm of the new constitutionalism Christopher May Part II.
Abstract: 1. New constitutionalism and world order: general introduction Stephen Gill and A. Claire Cutler Part I. Concepts: 2. Market civilization, new constitutionalism and world order Stephen Gill 3. New constitutionalism and the commodity form of global capitalism A. Claire Cutler 4. The rule of law as the grundnorm of the new constitutionalism Christopher May Part II. Genealogy, Origins and World Order: 5. Toward a genealogy of the new constitutionalism: the empire of liberty and domination Tim Di Muzio 6. The origins of the new constitutionalism: lessons from the 'old' constitutionalism Ran Hirschl Part III. Multilevel Governance and Neo-liberalization: 7. When the global inhabits the national: fuzzy interactions Saskia Sassen 8. New constitutionalism and variegated neo-liberalization Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore 9. New constitutionalism and multilevel governance Adam Harmes Part IV. Trade, Investment and Taxation: 10. How to govern differently: neo-liberalism, new constitutionalism and international investment law David Schneiderman 11. Trade agreements, the new constitutionalism and public services Scott Sinclair 12. New constitutionalism, international taxation and crisis Dries Lesage, Mattias Vermeiren and Sacha Dierckx Part V. Social Reproduction, Welfare and Ecology: 13. Social reproduction, fiscal space and remaking the real constitution Isabella Bakker 14. New constitutionalism, disciplinary neo-liberalism and the locking in of indebtedness in America Adrienne Roberts 15. New constitutionalism, neo-liberalism and social policy Janine Brodie 16. New constitutionalism and the environment: a quest for global law Hilal Elver Part VI. Globalization from Below and Prospects for a Just New Constitutionalism: 17. Constitutionalism as critical project: the epistemological challenge to politics Gavin W. Anderson 18. New constitutionalism and geopolitics: notes on legality and legitimacy and prospects for a just new constitutionalism Richard Falk.
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