ISSN: 2036-5438
- 21. Federalism, political culture and the Question of Remaking Nigeria
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- The practice of federalism in Nigeria had undergone different stages of structuring to resolve salient political issues. However, despite each change to the structure, the clamour for further change ...
- Created on 18 November 2021
- 22. Perspectives on Federalism web-site is updated as soon as new contributions are approved by reviewers and revised by the authors. They are then collected into three issues a year. You can freely download ...
- (Archives)
- Perspectives on Federalism web-site is updated as soon as new contributions are approved by reviewers and revised by the authors. They are then collected into three issues a year. You can freely download ...
- Created on 27 July 2021
- 23. Ethnolinguistic federalism and interborder conflict in Ethiopia
- (Essay)
- This study examines the interplay between federalism and interborder conflict between the Tigrai and Amhara regions of Ethiopia. To this effect, secondary data, both qualitative and quantitative, ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
- 24. Paris: Epitome or Blind Spot of the Constitutional Identity of France?
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- Giacomo Delledonne This short piece aims to make sense of the place of Paris within the French constitutional order and to analyse the role of the capital city in defining the constitutional identity ...
- Created on 27 June 2025
- 25. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity
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- 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
- 26. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe
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- Giovanni Boggero This paper examines the dual role of European capital cities as both symbols of national sovereignty and autonomous local government units. Despite their increasing prominence in ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 27. Troubled Legacies: The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 and the Thin Line Between Impunity and Reconciliation
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- Lidia Bonifati On 18 September 2023, the UK Parliament adopted the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 to address the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict and promote ...
- Created on 18 June 2025
- 28. The real choice: European or national rearmament, supranational or intergovernmental European defence?
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- Roberto Castaldi The debate on European defence seems confused. This is due to the fact that when member states cannot deal with a supranational problem, which requires at least European, if not ...
- Created on 09 May 2025
- 29. Endogenous Limits of the Right to Conscientious Objection: Does a Conscientious Objector Have the Right to Refuse Even 1-Day Military Service?
- (Note)
- Işıl Kurnaz Can the refusal of 1-day reserve military service be interpreted in a way that expands the right to conscientious objection? The ECHR's most recent judgment on conscientious objection, ...
- Created on 09 April 2025
- 30. The Global Gateway to Latin America. Strengths and bottlenecks of the European strategy: a mid-term review
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- Gabriele Casano, Olimpia Fontana, Federico Nastasi The Global Gateway (GG) has been presented as the EU flagship foreign policy initiative to fill the global investment gap, with a regional focus ...
- Created on 08 April 2025
- 31. Energotehnica: Primacy and Effective Judicial Protection Beyond the Rule of Law Crisis
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- Orlando Scarcello Case C-792/22, Parchetul de pe lângă Judecătoria Rupea and Others v. MG, Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 26 September 2024, ECLI:EU:C:2024:788. The Energotehnica judgment ...
- Created on 04 December 2024
- 32. Blockchain Technology in Parliamentary Voting Procedures
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- Ylenia Maria Citino Covid-19 pandemics showed us that the functionality of in-person assemblies can be severely challenged by health restrictions. This paper aims to study the feasibility and constitutional ...
- Created on 28 November 2024
- 33. Modi’s Nehru Jacket: President’s Rule Invocations during the tenures of Prime Ministers Nehru and Modi
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- Panch Rishi Dev Sharma The President’s Rule impositions under Article 356 of the Constitution of India extraordinarily empower the central government to determine ‘constitutional machinery failure ...
- Created on 20 November 2024
- 34. The Robert Triffin Plan and the New Bretton Woods
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- Guido Montani This essay investigates how the International Clearing Union proposed by Keynes at Bretton Woods was incorporate by Robert Triffin into the three crucial projects during his intense ...
- Created on 24 October 2024
- 35. New Caledonia: a Promising Attempt to Constitutionalize a Sovereignty Conflict Going Wrong
- (Essay)
- Elisabeth Alber New Caledonia is a French autonomous territory in the South Pacific whose constitutional status is designed to be transitional. It derives from the 1998 Nouméa Agreement, based ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 36. The Road Less Travelled: Constitutionalising Internal Secession
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- Nejat Hussein, Yonatan T. Fessha The Ethiopian Constitution uniquely elevates the demand for internal secession to the status of a constitutional right. This right, enshrined in Article 47 of ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 37. Fiscal Decentralization in Federal Systems: A Comparative Story of a Principle and its Paradigms
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- 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
- 38. ‘Spearheaded Asymmetry’ in “Multinational” European Federalising Processes: the Asymmetric Challenges in ‘Regional States’
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- 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
- 39. How Multilevel Governance Structures and Crisis Mitigating Measures Impact Political Trust: a Systematic Literature Review
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- Jakob Frateur The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that political actors and were willing to take or endorse drastic measures to mitigate the spread of the virus. At the same time, the political systems ...
- Created on 11 June 2024
- 40. Loyalty references in the Statutes of Autonomy in Spain: legal or symbolic value?
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- Gonzalo Gabriel Carranza The federal loyalty in Spain is an unwritten constitutional principle that binds the State and the Autonomous Communities in their intergovernmental relations, as well ...
- Created on 30 April 2024