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1. A Comparative Review of the Federal Security Models in Nigeria and the United States of America: (Essay); Akapoti-Ajibola Sunday James, Azeez Olaniyan and Iseolorunkanmi Joseph Federalism is a system of government that shares power among different levels of government. Two dominant security models in ...; Created on 16 December 2025
2. New Trends in Comparative Federalism. A Special Issue. Final Remarks: (Essay); Giuseppe Martinico and Matteo Monti In this special issue, we have gathered experts from different legal systems, and critical voices who have explored new trends in comparative federalism from ...; Created on 01 August 2024
3. 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
4. The Current Challenges to Asymmetric Federalism in India in Comparative Perspective: (Essay); Harihar Bhattacharyya The article examines the various facets of the challenges to asymmetric federalism in India in comparative perspective and in the appropriate theoretical framework of asymmetric ...; Created on 22 July 2024
5. New Trends in Comparative Federalism. A Special Issue. Introduction: (Editorial); Giuseppe Martinico and Matteo Monti In this special issue we will address some of the clichés present in the study of comparative federalism. In so doing we shall focus on little-explored federalising ...; Created on 22 July 2024
6. 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
7. Cities challenging federalism: how subsidiarity can help: (Essay); ... democratic innovations take place. In this sense, cities are gaining importance as players beyond states from both a government and governance perspective. Through a comparative analysis of the constitutional ...; Created on 26 November 2025
8. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe: (Essay); ... paper identifies key constitutional and administrative patterns across Europe, drawing on Council of Europe frameworks and comparative analyses. It highlights variations in capital city models – ranging ...; Created on 26 June 2025
9. Book Review: Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa - Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani (eds.): (Review articles); Nickson Mayieka Oira This work critically analyses the Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, edited by Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani, Cambridge University ...; Created on 01 August 2024
10. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts: (Essay); Nikos Skoutaris Scholars have often either framed federalism as an alternative to secession (Buchanan 1995) or suggested that secession is incompatible with the federal principle (Jellinek 1905). ...; Created on 31 July 2024
11. Federalism and the Unit Question: (Essay); ... raise, not only because it contributes to the (comparative) debate on how to make federalism more responsive to 21st century challenges and problems, but also because it contributes to some broad questions ...; Created on 29 July 2024
12. ‘Spearheaded Asymmetry’ in “Multinational” European Federalising Processes: the Asymmetric Challenges in ‘Regional States’: (Essay); Matteo Monti In comparative federalism studies, the category of asymmetry is being explored more and more. However, the traditional category of asymmetry, developed for federal states, does not ...; Created on 24 July 2024
13. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions: (Essay); Cristian Altavilla Sub-national constitutional law constitutes a fundamental chapter of federal theory that, despite its diversity and richness, has been little explored. Recently, n all federal ...; Created on 12 March 2024
14. The Functional Federalism of the United Arab Emirates: (Essay); ... to classify it through the lens of comparative federalism. It is notable that flexibility in the provisions of the constitutions and in the jurisprudence of the UAE Supreme Federal Court shapes the division ...; Created on 31 January 2024
15. Comments on Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ‘The intersection of International Law and the competences relating of PWD in federal systems’: (Essay); The aim of this article is to comment on Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Implementation of the CRPD in Federal Systems and Its Implications edited by Delia Ferri, Francesco ...; Created on 14 November 2023
16. Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Introduction to the Symposium: (Essay); The aim of this article is to offer an introduction to the Symposium devoted to Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Implementation of the CRPD in Federal Systems and Its Implications ...; Created on 14 November 2023
17. Comparing fiscalisations: a review of Fiscal Unions by Tomasz Woźniakowski: (Review articles); A review of Fiscal Unions: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States by Tomasz P. Woźniakowski (OUP 2022). Download pdf; Created on 05 October 2023
18. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries: (Essay); Second chambers are often designed to represent territorial interests, but they are prone to being taken over by political parties which undermines legislators’ territorial focus. In traditional federal ...; Created on 06 December 2022
19. Decriminalizing Abortion in Federal Systems: (Essay); This article considers the decriminalization of abortion in federal systems - decentralised and centralised. While factors external to the governance model influence whether abortion is decriminalized, ...; Created on 04 April 2022
20. Subnational Courts of Last Resort in Germany and the USA: (Essay); In this article I explore the judicial dimension of federal systems from a subnational perspective. The findings show that regardles of the type of federalism subnational courts of last resort ...; Created on 28 September 2021

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