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1. How Multilevel Governance Structures and Crisis Mitigating Measures Impact Political Trust: a Systematic Literature Review: (Essay); 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
2. Federalism, political culture and the Question of Remaking Nigeria: (Essay); 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
3. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity: (Essay); 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
4. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe: (Essay); ... economic and environmental spheres, capitals remain deeply embedded in their states’ administrative structures, balancing their functions as political and cultural hubs with local self-government. The ...; Created on 26 June 2025
5. Introduction to the Symposium on “Capital Cities Shaping National Constitutional Identities”: (Essay); Ylenia Maria Citino and Giacomo Delledonne "The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters ...; Created on 25 June 2025
6. The Global Gateway to Latin America. Strengths and bottlenecks of the European strategy: a mid-term review: (Essay); ... on LAC. The GG serves as an economic investment tool, also offering geopolitical value. Although GG is still in the implementation phase, it has been criticized for promising too much and delivering too ...; Created on 08 April 2025
7. 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
8. 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
9. The Road Less Travelled: Constitutionalising Internal Secession: (Essay); 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
10. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts: (Essay); ... As Jellinek (ibid: 768) put it, ‘political suicide is not a legal category.’ And yet secession within today's globalised world can be also seen as just ‘another form of subsidiarity – a claim about the ...; Created on 31 July 2024
11. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order: (Essay); ... government. This article argues that these laws are being used to win or keep political power or to get the federal government to limit their legitimate roles in key areas. Finally, the article will discuss ...; Created on 31 July 2024
12. ‘Spearheaded Asymmetry’ in “Multinational” European Federalising Processes: the Asymmetric Challenges in ‘Regional States’: (Essay); ... 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
13. The Current Challenges to Asymmetric Federalism in India in Comparative Perspective: (Essay); ... federalism. Asymmetry, conceptually speaking, is linked to the so-called politics of difference and recognition in post-liberal political theory. The abrogation of Article 370 that ensured federal asymmetry ...; Created on 22 July 2024
14. Federalism and institutional structure: (Editorial); ... hand, in several member states, including France and Germany, the vote resulted in a major setback for the ruling political parties, with obvious implications on the political authority of some national ...; Created on 22 March 2024
15. Independence in the European Union: (Essay); Francisco Pereira Coutinho The dream of “independence in Europe” has been driving the very successful political action of nationalist movements in substate regions such as Catalonia, Flanders, ...; Created on 21 March 2024
16. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration: (Essay); Gábor Gulácsi and Ádám Kerényi By the autocratic transformation of its political system (with the establishment of the System of National Cooperation), then by its fierce promotion of national ...; Created on 22 January 2024
17. The ever-recurring salience of asymmetric federalism: (Editorial); As I write these lines, discussions about asymmetric regionalism are at the top of the political agenda in Italy. Towards the end of the 17th parliamentary term, in 2017, the regional governments ...; Created on 02 May 2023
18. Marching in line through the crisis or setting one’s own course in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? A comparison of six policies, 16 states and two shutdowns in the German federation: (Essay); When combating the pandemic, federations face the additional challenge that the responsibilities for political actions do not reside in one hand but are divided between several governments. Therefore, ...; Created on 15 December 2022
19. 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
20. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent: (Essay); ... change in the paradigm of the use of SDRs, but also in terms of political and economic strategy for the EU and the AU as key regional actors in their respective continents and at the international level. ...; Created on 09 November 2022

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