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1. Loyalty references in the Statutes of Autonomy in Spain: legal or symbolic value?: (Essay); ... of Autonomy, many of which have included references to loyalty since the reforms introduced at the beginning of this century. The aim of this study is to demonstrate whether these references have a legal ...; Created on 30 April 2024
2. Constrained Federalism and the Limits of Urban Decentralization: Explaining India’s Urban Governance Deficit through Intergovernmental Political Economy: (Essay); ... continue to operate with limited autonomy. This study examines how intergovernmental power asymmetries shape urban governance outcomes and contribute to persistent infrastructure deficits. Drawing on federal ...; Created on 05 June 2026
3. Symbolic Federalism and Real Exclusion: Post-Statehood Governance in Telangana and the Limits of Subnational Transformation: (Essay); ... limits of statehood as a stand-alone remedy for structural injustice and contributes to broader debates on federalism, subnational autonomy, and democratic deepening in India and comparative contexts. ...; Created on 20 April 2026
4. Towards a next generation of joint borrowing in Europe: (Essay); ... the new normal is competition and confrontation with predatory superpowers along with frequent systemic shocks, joint borrowing could finance European Public Goods (EPGs) essential to Europe’s autonomy ...; Created on 02 February 2026
5. Decentralization in Italy and Greece: a diverging trajectory: (Essay); ... autonomy between the two countries, with Italy exhibiting a minor trend towards federalism over the last four decades while Greece remains one of the most unitary and highly centralized countries in the ...; Created on 26 August 2025
6. 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
7. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe: (Essay); ... from dominant "city-states" like Berlin and Vienna to decentralized capitals such as Bern and The Hague – while emphasizing shared challenges in governance, financial autonomy, and intergovernmental cooperation. ...; Created on 26 June 2025
8. New Caledonia: a Promising Attempt to Constitutionalize a Sovereignty Conflict Going Wrong: (Essay); ... non-territorial autonomy. Indeed, the Nouméa Agreement provided the New Caledonian divided society with a power-sharing system that up to 2021 worked well. It recognizes the ‘Kanak people’ and ‘shared ...; Created on 01 August 2024
9. 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
10. Fiscal Decentralization in Federal Systems: A Comparative Story of a Principle and its Paradigms: (Essay); Alice Valdeslici The paper endeavors to revise and reframe the traditional categories established in the studies on fiscal federalism. It does so by embracing a comparative constitutional law viewpoint ...; Created on 25 July 2024
11. 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
12. The Unsettled Question of the Constitutional Framework and the Interpretative Authority in the Danish Rigsfællesskab: (Essay); José María Lorenzo Villaverde The wording of the Danish constitution (Grundlov) suggests that Denmark is a unitary state. However, both Greenland and the Faroe Islands have autonomy based on ...; Created on 18 April 2024
13. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions: (Essay); ... law, through analysing the principle of constitutional autonomy, the distribution of powers between levels of government and the co-sovereignty theory. The article concludes with reflections on Argentina’s ...; Created on 12 March 2024
14. The ever-recurring salience of asymmetric federalism: (Editorial); ... of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna initiated the procedure for obtaining greater autonomy – literally, ‘particular forms and conditions of autonomy’ – in a number of policy areas. Preliminary agreements ...; Created on 02 May 2023
15. Equalization and territorial integration in Canada: a nation building instrument?: (Essay); ... finance constitutionally assigned competences would render them inoperable, reducing autonomy to an empty vessel. However, the use of fiscal instruments to accommodate diversity and reduce the risk of ...; Created on 25 November 2022
16. The Role of the European Union in Secessionist Conflicts: (Essay); ... and restraint in respect of Member State autonomy. Through creative and pragmatic conflict-resolution the EU can and should conjure the political courage to find the limits of potential commitment. To ...; Created on 20 September 2021

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