Reflecting and Building Asymmetries: The Role of (Sub-) Constitutional Statutes in Spain and the UK

Skoutaris, Nikos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5998-7319 (2019) Reflecting and Building Asymmetries: The Role of (Sub-) Constitutional Statutes in Spain and the UK. In: Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes: Forms, Functions, Applications. Routledge, pp. 156-175. ISBN 978-135120182-7

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Abstract

The Spanish and the UK constitutional orders are asymmetrical as to the level of autonomy that the various regional governments enjoy but also as to the kind of relationship each and every one of them develops with the metropolitan State. The paper provides for a comparative analysis of the role that the (sub-)constitutional statutes play in Spain and the UK in reflecting political asymmetries and creating constitutional ones. It argues that the processes that led to the drafting of the relevant documents have taken into account those very different political aspirations that certain ethnic and political communities had in those countries. At the same time, the distribution of competences between the various tiers as regulated by those statutes has translated the de facto political asymmetries into de jure constitutional asymmetries.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > International Law
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	12 Dec 2018 09:30
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 00:08
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69285
DOI:	10.4324/9781351201834

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