Constitutional Courts, Decentralization and Democracy: a Research on the Participation of Subnational Entities and the Opening of Judicial Review

A Constitutional Court, in federal or quasi-federal countries, defines the degree of centralization or political decentralization. Therefore, this research seeks to identify whether the opening of the Court’s decision-making process for the participation of state or subnational entities (such as State Government and Legislative Assembly) can attenuate centralization (these state level actors are heard by...

Panel 136, WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 2018 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM