Regional legislatures and national lawmaking |
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| Authors: | Ben Noble |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, London, UK;2. National Research University–Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation |
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| Abstract: | Recent work has noted the supposedly ‘exceptional’ constitutional authority of sub-national legislatures in Mexico to introduce legislative initiatives into the national congress. Rather than a mechanism unique to Mexico, however, this debate article notes other states’ constitutions with similar provisions, drawing on data from the Comparative Constitutions Project, as well as a new dataset on lawmaking in the Russian Federation. The article calls for a new collaborative research agenda to explore the involvement of sub-national legislatures in national-level lawmaking. |
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| Keywords: | Sub-national legislatures lawmaking constitutions Mexico Russia |
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