Conclusions: comparative federalism and the constitutional treaty

Constitutional Treaty Between Problem - Solving Treaty and Rights - Based Constitution

Treaty Interpretation and Constitutional Transformation: Informal Change in International Organizations

II. CONSTITUTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: AN APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS .............................................................................................. 296 A. Treaty vs. Constitution .................................................................................................... 297 B. Formal vs. Material Constitution ................................

International Environmental Agreements, Fiscal Federalism, and Constitutional Design1

In this paper, we analyse how the prospect of international negotiations over transboundary pollution shapes intra-country transfer schemes when the governments of the countries’polluting regions are in charge of environmental policy and negotiations. Federal governments can implement compensation payments between domestic regions and matching grants prior to the international negotiations betw...

Online appendix for: International Treaty Ratification and Party Competition: Theory and Evidence from the EU’s Constitutional Treaty

The Main Issues After the Convention on the Constitutional Treaty for Europe

It will ultimately be necessary for the European Union (“EU”) to stop simultaneously handling economic issues by the Community method and foreign policy measures by an undemocratic intergovernmental method. When the time comes for a single method to be chosen, it is important for the long-term stability of the Union and for the small Member States, that the Commission and the Community method i...