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1 sty 2021 · PDF | On Jan 1, 2021, Xabier Arzoz published The Constitutional Court of Spain: Doctrines, Practices and Acceptance | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
This chapter shares some thoughts and experiences on devolution of powers or, as referred to in Spain, decentralization and political pluralism. It begins by examining the Spanish constitution and the manner in which the ‘state of autonomies’ has been created since 1979.
Given the lack of unambiguously constitutional foundations, Spain’s Constitutional Court (TC) has being playing a leading role in building the regulatory framework of the Autonomic State. This paper analyses whether this function is sufficient to explain the level of agreement among TC justices when adopting their resolutions, and in ...
30 maj 2019 · 1.1.2 On the whole, the key elements of the rationale of the Constitution include (a) a system of representative democracy, separation of powers and the rule of law, (b) protection of constitutional rights and liberties and (c) the territorial decentralisation of political power in Spain.
30 maj 2019 · PDF | Although the constitutional text has remained nearly untouched – only twice has the Spanish Constitution been amended since its enactment in 1978... | Find, read and cite all the...
1 The state and democracy in Spain: a historical overview. Spain’s democratic regime today is a stable, con-solidated system that fits well within the main-stream of West European democracies. As we will see in the following chapters, it does have some distinguishing characteristics, but several of these (such as its high level of cabinet ...
This chapter gives an account of the basic principles and institutions of the Spanish constitutional order. It first describes the process of transition from Franco’s dictatorship to democracy culminating in the enactment of a new Constitution in 1978.
