ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Constrained Federalism and the Limits of Urban Decentralization: Explaining India’s Urban Governance Deficit through Intergovernmental Political Economy
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- Prakash Chittoor and Naveen Kolloju India’s urban governance reveals a central paradox of federalism: despite constitutional decentralization under the 74th Amendment, Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) ...
- Created on 05 June 2026
- 2. Responsibility without Power: Federalism and the Dilemma of Internal Security Management in Nigeria
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- ... sector reform that ensures the constitutional entrenchment of local security mechanisms for the component units—States and Local Governments—to enhance effective security governance. Download pdf ...
- Created on 28 November 2025
- 3. Cities challenging federalism: how subsidiarity can help
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- Chiara Salati This paper explores the challenge that cities pose to federalism. Cities are increasingly emerging as sites not only of institutional pluralism, but also of social pluralism where ...
- Created on 26 November 2025
- 4. Decentralization in Italy and Greece: a diverging trajectory
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- ... governance traditions and clientelism, however an issue that separates them is decentralization. An analysis of the main decentralization indexes confirms an important difference in the level of local ...
- Created on 26 August 2025
- 5. 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
- 6. 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
- 7. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts
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- ... right level for governance within a complex, multi-layered system that extends from the personal through the local, regional, state, transnational and international.’ (Waters 2020:227). Taking the cue ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 8. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions
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- ... constitutional space, through the bases and limits placed on local constituent power by the Argentine federal constitution. Another aim is to unravel the foundations of Argentine sub-national constitutional ...
- Created on 12 March 2024
- 9. Centre-state Relations: A Kerala Experience
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- ... joined the liberation struggle started by the Nair Service Society, a local organization of Nair community, in collaboration with the Catholic congress representing Catholic community to topple the government. ...
- Created on 21 January 2021




