Xenophon Contiades

Constitutions in the Global Financial Crisis

A Comparative Analysis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781409466314
• ISBN-10: 1409466310
• Artikelnr.: 45375301

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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;