Metropolitan Regionalism: Legal and Constitutional Problems

Problems and prospects of metropolitan governance in Sydney: towards ‘old’ or ‘new’ regionalism?

.............................................................................................................................. 5 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................... 6 1. METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE: A REVIEW OF ARGUMENTS............................ 8 1.1 The debate on metropolitan governance: three waves ...

Metropolitan governance in Switzerland Finally some new regionalism?

Questions of metropolitan governance were not on the agenda in Switzerland for decades. Swiss metropolitan areas are highly fragmented and the political entities rather compete than cooperate. Scholars therefore argued that Switzerland followed the idea of the public choice approach in metropolitan governance. However, recent changes indicate a move towards the ideas of the new regionalism appr...

E-voting: Constitutional and Legal Requirements and Their Technical Implications

This paper provides a systematic overview of the major constitutional and legal aspects of e-voting, together with their technical implications. All democracyoriented legal and constitutional requirements of an Internet-based voting system are identified. Such a voting system has to comply with these, in order to encourage and promote the participation of citizens, without violating any of thei...

Regionalism and the Great Plains: Problems of Concept and Method

Current Legal Problems 2006