Sergio Fabbrini
Biographic Data
| ID | 641649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergio Fabbrini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergio |
| FAMILY NAME | Fabbrini |
| SIGNATURE | FABBRINI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6174-6656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 529 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The Trump effect: Readiness 2030, Safe, and the German debt brake reform
The return of Donald Trump to the US Presidency in 2025 has dramatically impacted on the EU’s fiscal framework. In response to Trump aims to disengage the US from guaranteeing the security of Europe, the EU has triggered the national safeguard clause of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), the center piece of the EU fiscal rules, reformed in 2024 after three years of suspension because of the pandemic. The decision exempts member states, for four…
Monnet Reversed: The Intergovernmental Solutions of the Poly‐Crises
Right‐Wing Sovereignism in the European Union: Definition, Features and Implications
This article investigates how traditionally anti‐European Union (EU) right‐wing parties and leaders in four EU member states reinterpreted their relation with the EU in the post‐Brexit period (2016–2022). Either for the political opportunity structure's constraints or for the costs triggered by Brexit, right‐wing European nationalists had to redefine their role in remaining in the EU. We conceptualize as ‘sovereignism’ their attempt to endogenize…
Comparative Fiscal Federalism and the Post‐Covid EU: Between Debt Rules and Borrowing Power
This thematic issue examines two main research questions: What are the features, the determinants, and the implications of fiscal integration in a system of multilevel governance like the EU? And, what can the post-pandemic EU learn from established federations when it comes to fiscal integration? We attempt to conceptualize the patterns of EU fiscal integration. In so doing, we identify eight instruments of fiscal integration in a federal or mul…
The Political Determinants of Fiscal Governance in the EU: Towards a New Equilibrium
The article investigates the political determinants of fiscal governance in the EU. Since the outset of the Economic and Monetary Union, the EU adopted a model of fiscal regulation which attempted to keep government debt and deficit in check to avoid “fiscal dominance.” With the 2020 pandemic, the EU suspended the fiscal rules and adopted a program, Next Generation EU, having some features of a central fiscal capacity. On the bases of comparative…
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: Towards a Paradigm Change or Just a Big One-Off
Next Generation EU (NGEU), the new temporary program (2021-2026) decided by the European Union (EU) to deal with the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, represents a substantial break with respect to previous EU responses to economic crises. After identifying the discontinuity introduced by the NGEU compared to the governance response to the sovereign debt crisis of the early 2010s, the paper investigates the conditions under which a …
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘Next Generation Eu’ and the Politics of Sub-Regional Coalitions
The article aims to explain the 2020 approval of ‘Next Generation EU’, the program for helping the EU member states to go beyond the pandemic. The approval of NG-EU is interpreted in the context of a confrontation between three distinct interstate coalitions, coordinating a group of countries from the north (the Frugal coalition) against the core of continental countries (the Solidarity coalition) and then a group of countries from the east (the …
Governmental change in 2019 Italy: Domestic factors or European constraints
The Italian experience of 2019 has a general importance. Within a month (August 2019), Italy moved from being governed by an anti-EU government to a pro-EU government. A parliamentary change in the party composition of the government took place, although the new government continued to be supported by the same plurality party and led by the same prime minister. How to interpret the rise and fall of the Italian anti-EU government? Although domesti…
Who holds the elephant to account? Executive power political accountability in the EU
The article investigates the political accountability of the EU’s executive power (the elephant). It starts from a discussion of some recent contributions to the analysis of the EU’s executive power showing their difficulties in conceptualizing its accountability patterns. Then, it analyses executive power’s accountability in democratic federal systems, comparing coming-together federations, where executive power’s political accountability is ins…
Italy and the European Union: The discontinuity of the Conte government
This article analyses the approach of the Conte government to the EU and its budgetary and migration policies. Because the Conte government was inaugurated on 1 June 2018, the article will compare its approach to EU policies with the Gentiloni government of the initial five months of the year. On both budgetary and migration policy, the Conte government marked a discontinuity with the previous government, pursuing a declared populist agenda. Whil…
Constructing and de-constructing the European political identity: The contradictory logic of the EU’s institutional system
Alternative governance models: “Hard core” in a differentiated Europe
Between power and influence: The European parliament in a dual constitutional regime
The article investigates two questions, first why the EP has played different roles in different policies and second which type of governance regimes have accommodated those different roles. Based on the historical-institutionalist approach, the article argues that the EU has come to structure, since the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, different constitutional logics for dealing with the regulatory policies of the single market and the policies entered t…
Introduction: Differentiation and Beyond
Intergovernmentalism in the European Union. A comparative federalism perspective
The article discusses the two forms of intergovernmentalism institutionalized in the European Union (EU), one adopted in internal market policies and the other in the new policies close to traditional state powers. On the basis of a comparative federalism approach, it investigates the different forms of influence that constituent state governments exercise on the decision-making process of two types of federation. Contrary to federal unions, such…
From consensus to domination: The intergovernmental union in a crisis situation
After clarifying the concept of intergovernmental union, the article analyses the performance of the latter during the euro crisis. The economic policy side of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) epitomises the intergovernmental union because based on the principle of voluntary coordination between member state governments as a condition for advancing the process of integration. Tested during the euro crisis, because of the distrust emerged bet…
Catalysts of integration – the role of core intergovernmental forums in EU politics
This article synthetises the contributions of the special issue along three major lines of reasoning. First, the European Council is considered as a catalyst of post-Maastricht integration. This is mainly due to its policy-making role in core new areas of European Union (EU) activity. Second, inter-institutional relations that have emerged between the European Council, the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament in the post-Maastricht…
Integration without supranationalisation: Studying the lead roles of the European Council and the Council in post-Lisbon EU politics
This special issue follows up on a stream of recent contributions on what has been identified as a particular phase of post-Maastricht European integration: the ‘new intergovernmentalism’ and ‘the intergovernmental union’. This literature considers the European Union’s (EU) core intergovernmental forums for policy coordination, the European Council, the Eurogroup and the Foreign Affairs Council as central to EU decision-making. These bodies perfo…
The euro crisis through two paradigms: Interpreting the transformation of the European economic governance
The euro crisis has put to test the intergovernmental decisionmaking regime institutionalized by the 2009 Lisbon Treaty for dealing with the economic policy side of the Economic and Monetary Union. Under the pressure of the euro collapse, the heads of state and government have introduced new legal measures and intergovernmental treaties that have radically transformed the European economic governance. How to interpret this transformation? The art…
The constitutional conundrum of the European Union
The euro crisis has called into question the constitutional compromises formalized in and by the Lisbon Treaty. The compromise between different (supranational and intergovernmental) interests, the compromise between member states engaged in building the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and those allowed to opt out of it and the compromise, within the EMU, between a centralized approach to monetary policy and decentralized economic policy. Union…
Which European Union?: Europe After the Euro Crisis
Sergio Fabbrini argues that the European Union (EU) is made up of states pursuing different aims, rather than simply moving in the same direction at different speeds. He describes the alternative perspectives on the EU (an economic community, an intergovernmental union, and a parliamentary union), that led to multiple compromises in its structure and shows how the Euro crisis has called them into question. The book argues that a new European poli…
The European Union and the Puzzle of Parliamentary Government
The parliamentary election of Jean-Claude Juncker as the Commission president re-launched the debate on the parliamentary transformation of the EU. The article critically discusses the argument that EU can or should become a parliamentary federation. Based on the analytical distinction between federation by aggregation and by disaggregation, and assuming the EU as a species of the former type, the article shows the difficulty of adopting a parlia…
Obama’s wavering: US foreign policy on the Egyptian crisis, 2011–13
The existing literature explains the wavering course of President Barack Obama’s policy on the 2001–03 Egyptian crisis as attributed to either his personal characteristics (lack of an international experience, predisposition to sermonize rather than to strategize) or to the impact of the decline of the United States as a global superpower (inability to influence foreign actors and contexts). Although both explanations are worthy of consideration,…
An institutional approach to foreign policy-making: The EU, the USA and crisis management in Africa
The European Union and the Libyan crisis
Intergovernmentalism and Its Limits: Assessing the European Union’s Answer to the Euro Crisis
The Lisbon Treaty has institutionalized a dual constitution, supranational in the single market’s policies and intergovernmental in (among others) economic and financial policies. The extremely complex system of economic governance set up for answering the euro crisis has been defined and implemented on the basis of the intergovernmental constitution of the EU. The euro crisis has thus represented a test for the validity of the intergovernmental …
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance: Towards a Paradigm Change or Just a Big One-Off
Next Generation EU (NGEU), the new temporary program (2021-2026) decided by the European Union (EU) to deal with the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, represents a substantial break with respect to previous EU responses to economic crises. After identifying the discontinuity introduced by the NGEU compared to the governance response to the sovereign debt crisis of the early 2010s, the paper investigates the conditions under which a …
Integration without supranationalisation: Studying the lead roles of the European Council and the Council in post-Lisbon EU politics
This special issue follows up on a stream of recent contributions on what has been identified as a particular phase of post-Maastricht European integration: the ‘new intergovernmentalism’ and ‘the intergovernmental union’. This literature considers the European Union’s (EU) core intergovernmental forums for policy coordination, the European Council, the Eurogroup and the Foreign Affairs Council as central to EU decision-making. These bodies perfo…
The Return to the State: Critiques
This symposium features three critiques of Gabriel Almonds argument-by Eric A. Nordlinger of Brown University, Theodore J. Lowi of Cornell University, and Sergio Fabbrini of the University of Trento
From consensus to domination: The intergovernmental union in a crisis situation
After clarifying the concept of intergovernmental union, the article analyses the performance of the latter during the euro crisis. The economic policy side of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) epitomises the intergovernmental union because based on the principle of voluntary coordination between member state governments as a condition for advancing the process of integration. Tested during the euro crisis, because of the distrust emerged bet…
Federalizing Italy: The Convergent Effects of Europeanization and Domestic Mobilization
(2003). Federalizing Italy: The Convergent Effects of Europeanization and Domestic Mobilization. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 100-120
Features and Implications of Semi-Parliamentarism: The Direct Election of Italian Mayors
An important electoral and institutional reform has been introduced in Italian local government since 1993: the direct election of the mayor and of the president of the provincial government, but with the possibility that the legislature may pass a vote of no confidence in them. Through this reform a new system of government has been established: semi-parliamentarism, institutionally different from the established democratic systems of government…
Intergovernmentalism in the European Union. A comparative federalism perspective
The article discusses the two forms of intergovernmentalism institutionalized in the European Union (EU), one adopted in internal market policies and the other in the new policies close to traditional state powers. On the basis of a comparative federalism approach, it investigates the different forms of influence that constituent state governments exercise on the decision-making process of two types of federation. Contrary to federal unions, such…
Right‐Wing Sovereignism in the European Union: Definition, Features and Implications
This article investigates how traditionally anti‐European Union (EU) right‐wing parties and leaders in four EU member states reinterpreted their relation with the EU in the post‐Brexit period (2016–2022). Either for the political opportunity structure's constraints or for the costs triggered by Brexit, right‐wing European nationalists had to redefine their role in remaining in the EU. We conceptualize as ‘sovereignism’ their attempt to endogenize…
Going beyond the pandemic: ‘Next Generation Eu’ and the Politics of Sub-Regional Coalitions
The article aims to explain the 2020 approval of ‘Next Generation EU’, the program for helping the EU member states to go beyond the pandemic. The approval of NG-EU is interpreted in the context of a confrontation between three distinct interstate coalitions, coordinating a group of countries from the north (the Frugal coalition) against the core of continental countries (the Solidarity coalition) and then a group of countries from the east (the …
The European Union and the Puzzle of Parliamentary Government
The parliamentary election of Jean-Claude Juncker as the Commission president re-launched the debate on the parliamentary transformation of the EU. The article critically discusses the argument that EU can or should become a parliamentary federation. Based on the analytical distinction between federation by aggregation and by disaggregation, and assuming the EU as a species of the former type, the article shows the difficulty of adopting a parlia…
The Domestic Sources of European Anti‐Americanism
The Terrorist Attacks In New York And Washington Dc On 11 September 2001, and the killing of thousands of people were not sufficient to dispel a mood of suspicion in European public opinion towards America. Of course, during the very first days after the attack, there was widespread grief and sorrow about the event among Europeans. But, as soon as discussion on the right strategy to pursu to combat terrorism began, the initial mood of identificat…
Italy and the European Union: The discontinuity of the Conte government
This article analyses the approach of the Conte government to the EU and its budgetary and migration policies. Because the Conte government was inaugurated on 1 June 2018, the article will compare its approach to EU policies with the Gentiloni government of the initial five months of the year. On both budgetary and migration policy, the Conte government marked a discontinuity with the previous government, pursuing a declared populist agenda. Whil…
Introduction: Differentiation and Beyond
The constitutional conundrum of the European Union
The euro crisis has called into question the constitutional compromises formalized in and by the Lisbon Treaty. The compromise between different (supranational and intergovernmental) interests, the compromise between member states engaged in building the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and those allowed to opt out of it and the compromise, within the EMU, between a centralized approach to monetary policy and decentralized economic policy. Union…
Transatlantic constitutionalism: Comparing the United States and the European Union
This article contributes to the European constitutional debate with a comparison of the constitutional evolution of the European Union and the United States. The European Union has more to learn from the American experience of constitutionalism than from any of its own Member States. Like the United States, the European Union will have a frame of government constitution that will try to order a system of multiple and concurrent communities of int…
"Europeanisation as Strengthening of Domestic Executive Power? The Italian Experience and the Case of the "Legge Comunitaria
The deepening process of European integration has had asymmetrical effects at the domestic level of EU member states. In particular it has strengthened the role of the executive to the detriment of that of the legislature in EU affairs. How has the legislature reacted to this process? This paper considers the Italian experience of the late 1990s through an analysis of the legge comunitaria , a yearly statute introduced in 1989 to achieve two aims…
Political Change without Institutional Transformation: What Can We Learn from the Italian Crisis of the 1990s
Since 1991 Italy has witnessed the crisis of its post-war consensual model of democracy. While in other democratic countries consensualism has been justified by ethnic or linguistic or religious cleavages, in Italy it is ideological cleavage that has justified the politics of accommodation among the leaders of the main parties. Consequently, as in the other consensual democracies, postwar Italy was unable to experience the alternation in governme…
The American System of Separated Government: An Historical-Institutional Interpretation
How should one define the American system of government? Sometimes, especially among non-American scholars, it is taken for granted that the American is a presidential system, or that it is the archetype of presidentialism. At other times, especially among American scholars, it is taken for granted that it incarnates the separation of power system envisioned by Madison. An historical-institutional analysis shows that both interpretations are unsa…
The European Union and the Libyan crisis
Monnet Reversed: The Intergovernmental Solutions of the Poly‐Crises
Comparative Fiscal Federalism and the Post‐Covid EU: Between Debt Rules and Borrowing Power
This thematic issue examines two main research questions: What are the features, the determinants, and the implications of fiscal integration in a system of multilevel governance like the EU? And, what can the post-pandemic EU learn from established federations when it comes to fiscal integration? We attempt to conceptualize the patterns of EU fiscal integration. In so doing, we identify eight instruments of fiscal integration in a federal or mul…
The rise and fall of Silvio Berlusconi: Personalization of politics and its limits
Constructing and de-constructing the European political identity: The contradictory logic of the EU’s institutional system
Catalysts of integration – the role of core intergovernmental forums in EU politics
This article synthetises the contributions of the special issue along three major lines of reasoning. First, the European Council is considered as a catalyst of post-Maastricht integration. This is mainly due to its policy-making role in core new areas of European Union (EU) activity. Second, inter-institutional relations that have emerged between the European Council, the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament in the post-Maastricht…
Luciano Cavalo, Il presidente americano. Ruolo e selezione del leader USA nell'era degli imperi mondiali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1987
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Partiti E Cambiamento Politico Negli Usa (1968-1988): Un Caso Di Riforma Istituzionale
IntroduzioneLo scopo di questo saggio è quello di analizzare la riforma del sistema di selezione del candidato presidenziale attuata negli Stati Uniti tra il 1968 e il 1988. Data la rilevanza che ha avuto ed ha, per i partiti politici statunitensi, la scelta del candidato presidenziale, l'analisi della riforma del sistema di selezione può consentire di individuare i cambiamenti realizzatisi sia nell'organizzazione di quei partiti che nel ruolo da…
The Return to the State: Critiques
This symposium features three critiques of Gabriel Almonds argument-by Eric A. Nordlinger of Brown University, Theodore J. Lowi of Cornell University, and Sergio Fabbrini of the University of Trento
Klaus Von Beyme, America as a Model. The Impact of American Democracy in the World, Aldershot, Gower, 1987
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Il Governo Del Leader-Con-Partito
IntroduzioneLo scopo di questo saggio è il seguente: individuare lestrategie di azione governativaadottate e adottabili nelle democrazie occidentali. Per quanto riguarda quelle adottate, molto è stato scritto, anche se con poca sistematicità analitica. Si tratta allora di porre ordine nel materiale disponibile, e ciò sulla base dei due approcci che hanno fin qui orientato l'interpretazione dell'azione governativa (quello delgoverno del partitoe q…
La politica italiana: Dizionario critico, 1945-95
Questo volume costituisce un tentativo originale e sistematico di analisi e riflessione sui protagonisti politici (partiti e movimenti), sulle istituzioni (governo, parlamento, presidente della Repubblica) e sui più importanti fenomeni (resistenza, '68, terrorismo) dell'Italia del dopoguerra. Ogni tematica viene presentata da alcuni dei migliori specialisti italiani in maniera sintetica e precisa in modo da offrire al lettore una visione compless…
Presidents, Parliaments, & Good Government
Presidents, Parliaments, & Good Government Sergio Fabbrini (bio) A “good government,” it is reasonable to assume, is one that can accomplish the essential executive tasks of 1) choosing and formulating policies in a way that expresses a clear symbolic direction, and 2) guaranteeing that those policies will receive effective implementation. In performing the former task, the executive must convey a sense of public purpose, forged through interacti…
American Democracy From a European Perspective
This article analyzes American democracy from a European perspective. It argues that American democracy (like European democracies) is based on antinomies, two societal and two institutional, deeply rooted in American constitutional development. Thus, each time American democracy has been used as a model and exported, the attempt has ended in failure. An antinomic model can be studied but not imitated. The article concludes that what is interesti…
The American System of Separated Government: An Historical-Institutional Interpretation
How should one define the American system of government? Sometimes, especially among non-American scholars, it is taken for granted that the American is a presidential system, or that it is the archetype of presidentialism. At other times, especially among American scholars, it is taken for granted that it incarnates the separation of power system envisioned by Madison. An historical-institutional analysis shows that both interpretations are unsa…
Tra pressioni e veti. Il cambiamento politico in Italia: Il cambiamento politico in Italia
Political Change without Institutional Transformation: What Can We Learn from the Italian Crisis of the 1990s
Since 1991 Italy has witnessed the crisis of its post-war consensual model of democracy. While in other democratic countries consensualism has been justified by ethnic or linguistic or religious cleavages, in Italy it is ideological cleavage that has justified the politics of accommodation among the leaders of the main parties. Consequently, as in the other consensual democracies, postwar Italy was unable to experience the alternation in governme…
When Cartels Fail: The Role of the Political Class in the Italian Democratic Transition
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Has Italy rejected the referendum path to change? The failed referenda of May 2000
The national referenda held in Italy on 21 May 2000 failed for lack of a quorum. The Italian constitution specifies that referenda are valid only if over 50 per cent of the eligible voters come to the polls, but only a third of the voters did so. The political significance of this event was considerable, especially because one of the questions involved the reform of the electoral system, and it was the referenda of 1991 and 1993 that had contribu…
Has Italy rejected the referendum path to change? The failed referenda of May 2000
The national referenda held in Italy on 21 May 2000 failed for lack of a quorum. The Italian constitution specifies that referenda are valid only if over 50 per cent of the eligible voters come to the polls, but only a third of the voters did so. The political significance of this event was considerable, especially because one of the questions involved the reform of the electoral system, and it was the referenda of 1991 and 1993 that had contribu…
Features and Implications of Semi-Parliamentarism: The Direct Election of Italian Mayors
An important electoral and institutional reform has been introduced in Italian local government since 1993: the direct election of the mayor and of the president of the provincial government, but with the possibility that the legislature may pass a vote of no confidence in them. Through this reform a new system of government has been established: semi-parliamentarism, institutionally different from the established democratic systems of government…
The Italian General Election of 13 May 2001: Democratic Alternation or False Step
On 13 May 2001, Italy Elected To Power A Centre-Right Coalition headed by the media magnate Silvio Berlusconi. Forza Italia, the political party founded by Berlusconi in 1994 when he first decided to enter politics, became the most widely supported political force in the country with almost 30 per cent of the popular vote. Forza Italia's success was partly a result of its ability to ‘cannibalize’ the votes of two of its smaller coalition partners…
The Domestic Sources of European Anti‐Americanism
The Terrorist Attacks In New York And Washington Dc On 11 September 2001, and the killing of thousands of people were not sufficient to dispel a mood of suspicion in European public opinion towards America. Of course, during the very first days after the attack, there was widespread grief and sorrow about the event among Europeans. But, as soon as discussion on the right strategy to pursu to combat terrorism began, the initial mood of identificat…
Federalizing Italy: The Convergent Effects of Europeanization and Domestic Mobilization
(2003). Federalizing Italy: The Convergent Effects of Europeanization and Domestic Mobilization. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 100-120
B Ringing R Obert A. D Ahl's T Heory of D Emocracy to E Urope
The recent publication of all the essays and articles written by Robert A. Dahl between 1940 and 1997 is an occasion to note the capacity of Dahl's theory of democracy to address specific problems within specific democratic countries. This review draws the threads of Dahl's work together and then applies them to the European situation. Its aim is not only to give coherence to Dahl's lifelong research project but also to show that his theory may h…
"Europeanisation as Strengthening of Domestic Executive Power? The Italian Experience and the Case of the "Legge Comunitaria
The deepening process of European integration has had asymmetrical effects at the domestic level of EU member states. In particular it has strengthened the role of the executive to the detriment of that of the legislature in EU affairs. How has the legislature reacted to this process? This paper considers the Italian experience of the late 1990s through an analysis of the legge comunitaria , a yearly statute introduced in 1989 to achieve two aims…
A Single Western State Model: Differential Development and Constrained Convergence of Public Authority Organization in Europe and America
The article discusses political development in the paradigmatic cases of Western Europe and the United States, arguing that the building and consolidation of their democratic nation states follow different paths. Nevertheless, after two centuries of differential political and institutional evolution, at the end of the 20th century, Western Europe, with the deepening of the integration process, has moved in the direction of a supranational organiz…
Layers of anti-Americanism: Americanization, American unilateralism and anti-Americanism in a European perspective
The American invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003 brought to the surface of public debate among European elites a robust anti-Americanism. The reaction to US unilateralism has been nourished by a complex of fears. Two in particular. The first fear has to do with the presumed economic and cultural Americanization of Europe. The second fear with the Americanization of the European political process. Both fears seem unjustified to a closer logical…
The federalization of the EU, the US and ‘compound republic’ theory: The convention's debate
This article compares the process of federalization of the EU with the American federal experience. It argues that both the EU and the US share features of compound polities, according to James Madison's conceptualization of these during the Philadelphia convention debate. Regardless of the specific institutional structures derived from the compound republic theory, the article stresses the importance of that theory for an understanding of the Eu…
Transatlantic constitutionalism: Comparing the United States and the European Union
This article contributes to the European constitutional debate with a comparison of the constitutional evolution of the European Union and the United States. The European Union has more to learn from the American experience of constitutionalism than from any of its own Member States. Like the United States, the European Union will have a frame of government constitution that will try to order a system of multiple and concurrent communities of int…
When a pigmy acts as a giant: The role of the Italian representatives in the Brussels Constitutional Convention
The Italian representatives in the Brussels Constitutional Convention played a greater role than expected. The Italians, who many thought would be destined to a role as pigmies in the Convention because of ideological differences and the personal mistrust they carried from their domestic arena, acted mostly as giants in the contributions they provided to the final text. The representatives of both the government and the opposition identified a se…
Political science (66 works) · Law (56 works) · Law (52 works) · Politics (51 works) · Political economy (41 works) · Economics (39 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (33 works) · Sociology (30 works) · European union (27 works) · Public Administration (22 works)