Our republican constitution / Adam Tomkins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451322203321
• Autore: Tomkins Adam
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2005
• ISBN: 1-4725-5967-3; 1-280-80858-6; 9786610808588; 1-84731-119-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.4102
• Soggetti: Constitutional law - Great Britain; Republicanism - Great Britain; Electronic books.; Great Britain Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-152) and index
• Nota di contenuto: 1 On the Political Constitution -- 2 Republican Constitutionalism -- 3 The Making of the Republican Constitution -- 4 Republican Constitutional Reform
• Sommario/riassunto: This new book by Adam Tomkins sets out a radical vision of the British constitution. It argues that despite its outwardly monarchic form the constitution is profoundly informed, and indeed shaped, by values and practices of republicanism. The republican reading of the constitution presented in this book places political accountability at the core of the constitutional order. As such, Our Republican Constitution offers a powerful rejoinder to the current trend in legal scholarship that sees the common law and the courts, rather than Parliament, as the central players in holding government to account. The book further contends that while the constitution should be understood as having republican foundations, current constitutional practice is, in a number of respects, insufficiently republican in character. The book closes by outlining a programme of republican constitutional reform that is designed to secure genuinely responsible government. This is an original and provocative reinterpretation of the central themes of the British ; constitution, drawing on constitutional history (especially of the seventeenth century), political theory and public law

Land Squandering and Social Crisis in the Spanish City / Jesús González Pérez, Francisco Cebrián-Abellán, María José Piñeira-Mantiñán

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910346676003321
• Autore: González Pérez Jesús
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019; Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019
• ISBN: 9783038979470; 3038979473
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (220 p.)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: The last two decades have been marked by intense and accelerated economic, political, and cultural processes that have affected urban spaces. These changes have occurred in different parts of cities (traditional centers, edges, peripheries) and at different levels of the urban system (large and medium-sized cities and in their respective areas of influence). Possibly the clearest expression of the spatial effects on cities can be perceived in their morphological transformations, their territorial dimensions, or in their social problems. Until 2008, urban-territorial processes were a reflection of the logic and inconsistencies of an expansive economic context and of a structural context that favored the development of cities through concurrent processes and actors. As a result, the built land and amount of urbanized and built surfaces increased, together with processes of the expansion and modernization of cities. Since 2008, the expansive economic cycle has ended, and there have been diverse negative consequences. Notably, the construction sector has come to an abrupt ; halt. Access to credit has also been reduced, and unemployment has increased. The economic recession has caused sociodemographic and socioeconomic issues exemplified by housing vulnerability, with dispossession, evictions, a shortage of social housing, and energy poverty.