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Title Constitutions in the global financial crisis : a comparative analysis / by Xenophon Contiades
Published Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, 2013

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Contents Introduction : the global financial crisis and the constitution / Xenophon Contiades -- How constitutions react to the financial crisis / Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou -- The constitution and the financial crisis in Ireland / David Gwynn Morgan -- The constitutional consequences of the financial crisis in Italy / Tania Groppi, Irene Spigno, and Nicola Vizioli -- Financial crisis and the constitution in Latvia / Ringolds Balodis and Janis Pleps -- The Spanish constitution in the turmoil of the global financial crisis / Agustín Ruiz Robledo -- The constitution and the financial crisis in the UK : historical and contemporary lessons / John F. McEldowney -- The impact of the financial crisis on the Greek constitution / Xenophon Contiades and Ioannis A. Tassopoulos -- The sovereign debt crisis and the constitution's negative outlook : a Portuguese preliminary assessment / Jonatas E.M. Machado -- Breaking and making constitutional rules : the constitutional effects of the financial crisis in Hungary / Zoltán Szente -- The impact of the financial crisis on Icelandic constitutional law. legislative reforms, judicial review and revision of the constitution / Björg Thorarensen -- The United States constitution and the great recession / Mark Tushnet
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Constitutional history -- Europe -- 21st century
Constitutional law -- Economic aspects -- Europe
Financial crises -- Europe.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Crise financière.
Réformes constitutionnelles.
Dette publique.
Constitutional history
Constitutional law -- Economic aspects
Economic policy
Financial crises
Verfassungsrecht
Öffentliche Schulden
Finanzlage
Europe -- Economic policy
Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Kontiadēs, Xenophōn I., editor
LC no. 2012042528
ISBN 9781409466321
1409466329
1317161629
9781317161622
1317161610
9781317161615
1299407331
9781299407336