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1. 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
2. In search of the identity of the Brazilian constitutional order: a dormant issue on this side of the Atlantic: (Essay); ... Latin America. The study navigates the complexities of applying a notion developed in the Global North to a distinct Latin American context, marked by a unique historical trajectory and the absence of ...; Created on 27 March 2026
3. From History to Identity: The Dynamics of Identitarian Constitutionalism in Russia: (Essay); ... and global affairs. The study highlights the role of diverse communities in shaping political and legal norms and underscores the ongoing negotiation between national priorities and external expectations. ...; Created on 26 January 2026
4. A Comparative Review of the Federal Security Models in Nigeria and the United States of America: (Essay); ... nature, which calls for rigorous measures through the collective efforts of all state security mechanisms. The study aimed at examining the outcomes of security models in two federal states, i.e., Nigeria ...; Created on 16 December 2025
5. Responsibility without Power: Federalism and the Dilemma of Internal Security Management in Nigeria: (Essay); ... in Nigeria as a result of the use of extra-legal means by the component units to ensure the security and safety of lives and properties. Given the ongoing reforms in Nigeria, the study recommends security ...; Created on 28 November 2025
6. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity: (Essay); ... recognized as a unique territorial entity with enhanced powers. The study further stresses on the need to reconcile Rome’s dual identity, as both a national symbol and a functioning urban center, through ...; Created on 26 June 2025
7. Endogenous Limits of the Right to Conscientious Objection: Does a Conscientious Objector Have the Right to Refuse Even 1-Day Military Service?: (Note); ... Kanatlı v. Türkiye, dated March 2024, attempts to answer this question by considering the right to conscientious objection as part of a broad conscientious objection movement. In this study, I will try ...; Created on 09 April 2025
8. Blockchain Technology in Parliamentary Voting Procedures: (Note); 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
9. 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
10. How Multilevel Governance Structures and Crisis Mitigating Measures Impact Political Trust: a Systematic Literature Review: (Essay); ... This paper therefore examines how crises mitigating measures and multilevel governance contexts impact political trust. We study this question by means of a systematic literature review of 48 papers searched ...; Created on 11 June 2024
11. 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
12. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions: (Essay); ... countries of the world, sub-national constitutional law and its importance in the constitutional order are being (re)discovered. The main aim of this paper is to study the delimitation of the sub-national ...; Created on 12 March 2024
13. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration: (Essay); ... case study of the deteriorating Hungary-EU relationship this paper focuses on the conceptual explanation for the measures taken by the Union in response to the decline of democracy in Hungary and Hungary’s ...; Created on 22 January 2024
14. Addressing Complexity. The rise of the hybrid multilateral climate regime and its impact on the role played by ENGOs in the governance of climate change.: (Essay); ... played by NSAs and increasing the effectiveness of the global climate governance system. Accordingly, after duly addressing the literature on the issue at stake, this study has developed the concept of ...; Created on 10 February 2023
15. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries: (Essay); ... of this study of territorial representation in bicameral and federal Latin American countries support Madison's paradox and reveal that second chambers in federal Latin America have been ineffective in ...; Created on 06 December 2022
16. Equalization and territorial integration in Canada: a nation building instrument?: (Essay); ... by fostering national unity. The study focuses on arrangements at constitutional and legal level, including also secondary legislation with the final aim of evaluating if and to what extent the Canadian ...; Created on 25 November 2022
17. Earmarking grants in a federal polity: (Essay); ... effects from central-government intervention. Further, we study two economic issues on intergovernmental grants and find mixed evidence for flypaper behaviour and fungibility activities. Our results indicate ...; Created on 21 November 2022
18. Federalism, political culture and the Question of Remaking Nigeria: (Essay); ... of federalism? This article, an exploratory study, interrogated the latter part of the question by examining the concept of federal political culture and its effect on the practice of federalism in the ...; Created on 18 November 2021
19. The EU-Member State Relationship as a Principal-Agent Problem: (Essay); ... agency relationships within the European Union, and presents legal and political solutions of the founding treaties which aim to tackle the agency issues. Furthermore, the study analyzes two fundamental ...; Created on 21 October 2021
20. Scientific Committee: (Contents); Federalism is a relevant object of study for different academic disciplines such as political science, law, economics, history, political theory and philosophy, sociology, etc. Therefore Perspectives on ...; Created on 02 July 2021

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