Representative Government and Constitutional Reality: Spain between Literature and Political Thought
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Daniel Fernández Cañueto
Daniel Fernández Cañueto is adjunct lecturer of Constitutional Law at the University of Lleida. He got his PhD in Constitutional Law from the University of Barcelona in 2017 reading the thesis La interpretación constitucionalmente adecuada de la representación política y la relación representativa. His main areas of research are political representation, parliamentarianism and citizen participation. He has written several publications in Spanish journals on these fields of study and in the book tLa iglesia católica y la nacionalización de Cataluña (The Catholic Church and the nationalization of Catalonia), Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and University of Lleida, Madrid, 2016.
Abstract
The article analyses how the features of modern political representation have developed in Spanish constitutional history from a multidisciplinary perspective (political philosophy, political science, constitutional law and literature). Between the eighteenth- to the twentieth-century, indeed, the Kingdom of Spain experienced transformations in the concepts of sovereignty, periodic suffrage, free public opinion, and the free and non-revocable mandate. The article also takes into account how the evolution of concepts at stake affected the evolution of the others.
Funding statement: This study pertains to the activities of the Study Group on Democracy and Constitutionalism (GEDECO, Generalitat consolidated group 2014) and of the research project funded by the MINECO DER 2012-37567 on “Multilevel democracy: citizen participation and the territorial entities in public decision-making processes.”
About the author
Daniel Fernández Cañueto is adjunct lecturer of Constitutional Law at the University of Lleida. He got his PhD in Constitutional Law from the University of Barcelona in 2017 reading the thesis La interpretación constitucionalmente adecuada de la representación política y la relación representativa. His main areas of research are political representation, parliamentarianism and citizen participation. He has written several publications in Spanish journals on these fields of study and in the book tLa iglesia católica y la nacionalización de Cataluña (The Catholic Church and the nationalization of Catalonia), Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and University of Lleida, Madrid, 2016.
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