ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. 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
- 2. The Road Less Travelled: Constitutionalising Internal Secession
- (Essay)
- ... secession process. This represents a significant departure from procedures outlined in other federal jurisdictions, as they impose limitations on the creation of new constituent units by allowing federal ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 3. Federalism and the Unit Question
- (Essay)
- ... than traditional ones such as, for example, economic factors, urban/rural concentration, and aboriginal/indigenous representation. A subsidiary claim is that the unit question is an important issue to ...
- Created on 29 July 2024
- 4. ‘Spearheaded Asymmetry’ in “Multinational” European Federalising Processes: the Asymmetric Challenges in ‘Regional States’
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- ... to explain the asymmetric claims of autonomist and ethno-regionalist parties in some European regional states, notably in Italy and Spain. The asymmetrical demands of political movements representing national ...
- Created on 24 July 2024
- 5. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries
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- 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
- 6. The future of the EU-ACP relations: possible scenarios after the end of the post-Cotonou negotiations
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- This article provides an analysis of the recent negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the representatives of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) for the signature of a ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 7. 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
- 8. 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