New Challenges to the Separation of Powers

Edited by Antonia Baraggia, Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Law, Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law, University of Milan, Cristina Fasone, Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Law, Department of Political Science, LUISS Guido Carli and Luca Pietro Vanoni, Associate Professor of Comparative Law, Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law, University of Milan, Italy

• Contents:1 Introduction 1Vincenzo Zeno-ZencovichPART I THE THEORETICAL CHALLENGES TO THECLASSICAL SEPARATION OF POWERS DOCTRINE2 Introduction to Part I 7Andrea Pin3 Revitalising the social foundations of the separation of powers? 10Eoin Carolan4 Direct democracy and the separation of powers 30Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy5 New challenges to the separation of powers: the role ofconstitutional courts 45Luca Pietro Vanoni6 The rise of conditionality within the global administrativespace: a challenge for the separation of powers 77Antonia BaraggiaPART II TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE SEPARATIONOF POWERS IN NATIONAL CONTEXT7 Introduction to Part II 101Francesco Clementi8 The separation of powers in new constitutions 104Francois Venter9 Unpacking the separation of powers 123Jiří Baroš, Pavel Dufek and David Kosař10 The transformation of political parties and the guardians ofthe Constitution: the evolution of the power structure in theItalian system 143Stefania Leone and Irene PellizzonePART III THE SEPARATION OF POWERS UNDER PRESSURE11 Introduction to Part III 165Arianna Vedaschi12 “The symbolic jurisprudence”: Theorizing constitutional(re)capture, testing the limits of separation of powers andreimagining the judicial review 179Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz13 EU “strict conditionality” from the perspective of theseparation of powers 202Ioannis A. Tassopoulos14 North Africa and the Middle East after the Arab uprisings:a new separation of powers? 223Francesco Biagi15 Conclusion 243Miryam IacomettiIndex 252

'In reflecting on the separation of powers, the authors of this diverse collection of essays engage fruitfully with Giovanni Bognetti's basic insight (famously enlivened by the Baron de Montesquieu himself) that the best constitutional theory is sensitive to time and place, and to the ever-changing political, social and economic landscapes of governance.'