Constitutions in the Global Financial Crisis

A Comparative Analysis
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4094-6631-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 643 g

This book is the first to address the multi-faceted influence of the global financial crisis on the national constitutions of the countries most affected. By tracing the impact of the crisis on formal and informal constitutional change, sovereignty issues, fundamental rights protection, regulatory reforms, jurisprudence, the augmentation of executive power, and changes in the party system it addresses all areas of the current constitutional law dialogue and aims to become a reference book with regard to the interaction between financial crises and constitutions. The book includes contributions from prominent experts on Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Spain, the UK, and the USA providing a critical analysis of the effects of the financial crisis on the constitution. The volume’s extensive comparative chapter pins down distinct constitutional reactions towards the financial crisis, building an explanatory theory that accounts for the different ways constitutions responded to the crisis. How and why constitutions formed their reactions in the face of the financial crisis unravels throughout the book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Contiades, Xenophon

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Global Financial Crisis and the Constitution; Part I Constitutional Reactions in Comparative Perspective; Chapter 1 How Constitutions Reacted to the Financial Crisis; Part II First Path: Adjustment; Chapter 2 The Constitution and the Financial Crisis in Ireland, David Gwynn Morgan; Chapter 3 The Constitutional Consequences of the Financial Crisis in Italy, Tania Groppi, Irene Spigno, Nicola Vizioli; Chapter 4 Financial Crisis and the Constitution in Latvia, Ringolds Balodis, Janis Pleps; Chapter 5 The Spanish Constitution in the Turmoil of the Global Financial Crisis, Agustín Ruiz Robledo; Chapter 6 The Constitution and the Financial Crisis in the UK: Historical and Contemporary Lessons, John F. McEldowney; Part III Second Path: Submission; Chapter 7 The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Greek Constitution, Xenophon Contiades, Ioannis A. Tassopoulos; Chapter 8 The Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Constitution’s Negative Outlook: A Portuguese Preliminary Assessment, Jónatas E.M. Machado; Part IV Third Path: Breakdown; Chapter 9 Breaking and Making Constitutional Rules: The Constitutional Effects of the Financial Crisis in Hungary, Zoltán Szente; Chapter 10 The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Icelandic Constitutional Law: Legislative Reforms, Judicial Review and Revision of the Constitution, Björg Thorarensen; Part V Fourth Path: Stamina; Chapter 11 The United States Constitution and the Great Recession, Mark Tushnet;

Über Autor(innen)

Xenophon Contiades is Professor of Public Law, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Peloponnese and Director of the Centre for European Constitutional Law-Themistocles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation, Athens, Greece.