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1. Constrained Federalism and the Limits of Urban Decentralization: Explaining India’s Urban Governance Deficit through Intergovernmental Political Economy: (Essay); ... relations, the study challenges explanations that attribute governance failures solely to local capacity deficits. It argues instead that infrastructure deficits are structurally embedded within federal ...; Created on 05 June 2026
2. Symbolic Federalism and Real Exclusion: Post-Statehood Governance in Telangana and the Limits of Subnational Transformation: (Essay); ... equitable access to water, public employment, development funds, and political representation. This article argues, however, that Telangana’s post-statehood trajectory reflects a condition of symbolic ...; Created on 20 April 2026
3. In search of the identity of the Brazilian constitutional order: a dormant issue on this side of the Atlantic: (Essay); ... a strong supranational legal order. The research adopts a dual approach, combining analytical and normative dimensions, to argue that Brazilian constitutional identity is not a static core but a dynamic, ...; Created on 27 March 2026
4. Towards a next generation of joint borrowing in Europe: (Essay); ... a permanent fiscal capacity, no transfer union. This paper argues that groundbreaking geopolitical and macro-financial shifts call for reassessing at least some of these boundaries, today. In a world where ...; Created on 02 February 2026
5. Responsibility without Power: Federalism and the Dilemma of Internal Security Management in Nigeria: (Essay); ... primary and secondary data, this paper argues that the contradictions of Nigeria’s federal governance are not only undermining the maintenance of security but also contributing to the exacerbation of insecurity ...; Created on 28 November 2025
6. Cities challenging federalism: how subsidiarity can help: (Essay); ... recognition of cities in 27 federal and quasi-federal systems around the world, the paper investigates their constitutional status. Also by bringing the example of the Italian cities’ case, the paper argues ...; Created on 26 November 2025
7. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity: (Essay); Ylenia Maria Citino This paper explores the evolution of the constitutional status of Rome within Italy’s legal and political framework, arguing that the city’s symbolic and functional significance ...; Created on 26 June 2025
8. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order: (Essay); Errol P. Mendes This article analyses how two western Canadian provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, have used the concept of provincial sovereignty to argue for a form of autonomy that violates ...; Created on 31 July 2024
9. The Current Challenges to Asymmetric Federalism in India in Comparative Perspective: (Essay); ... Pakistan. The problems of autonomy of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia are discussed in comparative terms. This article argues that in multi-ethnic countries, different forms and layered of federal asymmetry ...; Created on 22 July 2024
10. The Unsettled Question of the Constitutional Framework and the Interpretative Authority in the Danish Rigsfællesskab: (Essay); ... that they are not in contradiction with the Grundlov. The latter remains silent about the home rule model, which has developed in parallel to the constitution but not in conflict with it. It is argued ...; Created on 18 April 2024
11. EU law and inter se agreements in defence matters: Mapping the interplay: (Essay); ... Based on a comparison with other policy areas, the paper argues that the incorporation of EUROCORPS and other intergovernmental defence cooperation initiatives within the EU legal order would not require ...; Created on 30 May 2023
12. The Reallocation of Special Drawing Rights to the Benefit of the African Continent: A Proposal for Euro Area Countries: (Essay); ... to US $650 billion in August 2021, it has been argued that the wealthiest economies should ‘redirect’ (or ‘re-channel’) at least some of their new SDRs to the benefit of the most vulnerable countries. ...; Created on 08 November 2022
13. Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia: (Essay); ... them by eliminating their representation in the Senate? I argue that the same democratizing forces that sought to strengthen territorial units via self-rule also had the effect of undermining shared rule ...; Created on 19 January 2021

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