The Powers That Be: Rethinking the Separation of Powers

ISBN-13: 9789087282516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 384 str.

Opis

The concepts of democratic legitimacy and the separation of powers have played vital roles in the evolution of many modern states. In recent decades, however, some national governments have begun to cede portions of their oversight to international or supranational power holders, as can be seen with the example of the European Union. Considering this new context, can the combination of democratic legitimacy and the separation of powers still prove useful outside of the framework of a traditional state and if so, in what form? The Powers That Be explores this question in essays that address legislative, executive, and judicial concerns through groundbreaking theoretical discussions and explorations of legal cases and developments."

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Hans-Martien ten Napel, Joost Luiten and Wim Voermans
Part I: Separation of Powers in a Transnational Era
Chapter 1: The Separation of Powers and Constitutional Scholarship
Maarten Stremler
Chapter 2: Separation of Powers beyond the State: The ‘inconveniences of [a]bsolute power’
Aoife O’Donoghue
Chapter 3: The Agony of Political Constitutionalism within the European Legal Space
Patricia Popelier
Chapter 4: Accountability and the New Separation of Powers
Joseph Corkin
Chapter 5: Trias Europea: Notes on Möllers Three Branches
Tom Eijsbouts
Part II: Legislative Power
Chapter 6: The Changing Role of National Parliaments in National Budgetary Matters in Light of the Increasing Centralisation of Fiscal Policy in the EMU
Michal Diamant
Chapter 7: The Rise of Regulators
Wim Voermans
Chapter 8: Constitutional Conventions and the UK Human Rights Act: From Parliamentary Sovereignty Towards the Separation of Powers?
Gert Jan Geertjes & Luc Verhey
Part III: Executive Power
Chapter 9: EU Administrative Soft Law and the Separation of Powers
Claartje van Dam
Chapter 10: Making a Virtue of Necessity: The Role of Discretion in Administrative Implementation
Josephine Hartmann
Chapter 11: Legitimising Transnational Decision-Making in the EU State Aid Regime
Paul Adriaanse
Part IV: Judicial Power
Chapter 12: Enhancing the Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights: Emphasising the Margin of Appreciation Is Not the Way to Go
Titia Loenen
Chapter 13: Separation of Powers and the Limits to the Constitutionalisation of Fundamental Rights Adjudication by the ECtHR and the CJEU
Ingrid Leijten
Chapter 14: ‘Make it a Better Place’: Transnational Public Interest Litigation and the Separation of Powers
Jerfi Uzman & Geerten Boogaard
Epilogue
Chapter 15: Separation of Powers – a Short Manual for the Perplexed
Christoph Möllers
References
Case Law
About the Authors
Index