Bulletin n. 3/2006
December 2006
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Gutierrez Gutierrez I.
    Sentido y alcance de la reforma del federalismo alemán
    in Revista de Derecho Constitucionál Europeo , n. 6 anno 3 ,  2006
    The fiftieth second reform of the Fundamental Law of Bonn has been considered as the most important since 1949. The study, after summarizing the process that has led to this reform and to define its fundamental characteristics, analyzes the outstanding attempt to move from the present “cooperative federalism” to a new “competitive federalism” which is supposed to agree better with the demands of the globalization. This conclusion remarks that the present understanding of the German federal principle, closely linked to the postulate of the social State, it results resistant in its main aspects against the constitutional reform; this reform develops itself in political and institutional channels that incorporate a guarantee of stability. As a epilogue, Ignacio Gutiérrez points out the possible utility of his analyses in order to study the transformations of the territorial arrangement of power inside Spanish or European fields.
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