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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION: AN APPRAISAL AND EXPLANATION
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2004.t01-2-00453.x
Subject(s) - convention , centralisation , political science , law , law and economics , sociology
The recent European Convention was constructed so that the median voter on the convention had a bias in favour of centralisation. The conclusions of the Convention were therefore not surprising. The European Constitutional Group has made a number of suggestions for change to the Convention that could reverse its centralising approach.