Autore
Dicosola, Maria

Titolo
Il rulemaking nel Regno Unito tra sovranità parlamentare e partecipazione
Periodico
Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 683 - Pagina finale: 710

Parliamentary sovereignty is traditionally considered as the most fundamental principle of the United Kingdom’s unwritten Constitution. However, the rule of representative democracy is experiencing a dramatic crisis in the UK, due to the increasing competition not only with direct democracy – as the growing cases of appeals to the people through referendums illustrate – but also with participatory democracy. Indeed, in this country, in particular since the end of the 1990s, several mechanisms aiming at involving the people in decision-making have been introduced. This paper offers a critical survey of the participatory tools in the fields of administration, law-making as well as constitutional reform in the UK, with the aim of demonstrating that increasing participation does not automatically result in increased (participatory) democracy. As a consequence, as it is argued, the analysis of the UK case supports the argument according to which participatory democracy shall be intended more as complementary rather than alternative to representative democracy.



SICI: 1720-4313(2020)3<683:IRNRUT>2.0.ZU;2-R
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