Eva Maria Belser

Université de Fribourg · institute of federalism

legal framework on sustainable trade in agriculture; concrete legal proposal (in German)

This volume deals with the relationship between constitutionalism and economic growth in Africa and addresses five questions: (1) In the constitutional reforms of the 1990s and thereafter, did constitutions also reflect the shift towards a market economy through the protection of property and freedom of contract? (2) Given that agriculture and extr...

This volume deals with the relationship between constitutionalism and economic growth in Africa and addresses five questions: (1) In the constitutional reforms of the 1990s and thereafter, did constitutions also reflect the shift towards a market economy through the protection of property and freedom of contract? (2) Given that agriculture and extr...

Federalism has not been able to stabilize Iraq or bring peace to the country. Instead, a flawed federal system has further increased ethnic and religious divisions and weakened the Iraqi state. It has also set an example for other Middle Eastern states, most notably Syria, where federalism is discussed as a potential solution to the ongoing civil w...

This volume researches concepts of direct, participatory and deliberative democracy, their structures and procedures, and the role of actors. On the one hand, the volume focuses on questions of institutionalisation and the context sensitivity of participation-centred procedures in European federal and regional states. On the other hand, the volume...

The 22nd volume of the yearbook is designed as a broad compendium providing a current overview of various aspects of federal and regional polity, politics and policies. The total of 32 articles relate to following sections: Twelve articles on the main topic, federal management of the COVID-19 pandemic (i.a. Minister of Health Jens Spahn). Three art...

Le fédéralisme canadien et son avenir : acteurs et institutions convie des historiens, des juristes et des politologues à décoder le passé et l’avenir de la fédération canadienne. L’ouvrage s’articule autour de quatre institutions : le bicaméralisme, le pouvoir judiciaire, le système électoral et les partis politiques et, enfin, les relations inter...

The attempt to introduce federalism in Iraq to peacefully deal with internal diversity and to stabilise the country has largely failed. The constitution of 2005, which directly resulted from the intervention of the USA and their allies, was unsuccessful in transforming the authoritarian centralised state in a federation uniting the different compon...

Countries deciding on deconfinement measures after initial lock-downs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic often include the continued confinement of those most vulnerable to the disease in these plans as a matter of course. Such continued confinement, however, is neither innocuous nor obviously justified. In this paper, we examine more systematica...

This paper presents the Swiss Ständerat as a model of perfect bicameralism. It looks at the constitutional design of the second Chamber, examines the evolution of the Ständerat and critically assesses its current functioning. The author claims that the Swiss Federal Assembly is still based on almost perfect bicameralism but that the second Chamber...