ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions
- (Essay)
- ... law, through analysing the principle of constitutional autonomy, the distribution of powers between levels of government and the co-sovereignty theory. The article concludes with reflections on Argentina’s ...
- Created on 12 March 2024
- 2. Indefinite detention of refugees ruled unconstitutional by the High Court of Australia – an opportunity for Europe to pause for thought?
- (Notes)
- ... with no prospects of resettlement to be unconstitutional. As governments around the world grapple with the challenges posed by mass migration, this article considers the consequences of the High Court ...
- Created on 05 March 2024
- 3. The Functional Federalism of the United Arab Emirates
- (Essay)
- ... of powers between the federal government and the emirates. The analysis clarifies that despite evidence of dual and administrative federalism features, the UAE federalism model is still in the making. ...
- Created on 31 January 2024
- 4. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration
- (Essay)
- ... identity, and furthermore by the unorthodox action it has taken against the Union’s federal policy of closing ranks in the face of the Russian-Ukrainian state of war, the Hungarian government, which achieved ...
- Created on 22 January 2024
- 5. EU law and inter se agreements in defence matters: Mapping the interplay
- (Essay)
- ... Based on a comparison with other policy areas, the paper argues that the incorporation of EUROCORPS and other intergovernmental defence cooperation initiatives within the EU legal order would not require ...
- Created on 30 May 2023
- 6. 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
- 7. 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
- 8. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries
- (Essay)
- ... theory, a senate mediates the relationship between democracy and federalism because it enables subnational participation in national government. Recent literature challenges this assumption and provides ...
- Created on 06 December 2022
- 9. Equalization and territorial integration in Canada: a nation building instrument?
- (Essay)
- ... government plays a key role in managing diversity and reducing the risk of secession. The fiscal dimension is a vital component of any system of shared government as the lack of financial resources to ...
- Created on 25 November 2022
- 10. Earmarking grants in a federal polity
- (Essay)
- The ongoing transition from layered-cake federalism to marble-cake federalism led to an increasing role of intergovernmental grants in many countries. The field of higher-education is an example. Central ...
- Created on 21 November 2022
- 11. European Republicanism and the Return of Geopolitics in European Integration Theory
- (Essay)
- The Russian assault on Ukraine has been described as a turning point for Europe, putting geopolitics back on the top agenda. The war coincidences with a new German government, which might, after 16 ...
- Created on 28 July 2022
- 12. Federalism in the 2015 and 2018 Peace Agreements in South Sudan – But What Kind of Federalism?
- (Essay)
- ... and extremely shaky peace agreements, which were signed in 2015 and 2018 under the auspices of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). In the process of peace negotiation, the establishment ...
- Created on 20 June 2022
- 13. Intellectual Prejudice and Institutional Shortcomings. The Risks for the Next Generation EU
- (Essay)
- Despite the fact that during the pandemic emergency the European Union managed to provide an ambitious and courageous response, in contrast to previous decisions, the intergovernmental method undermines ...
- Created on 04 April 2022
- 14. About the journal
- (Contents)
- ... federalism at all levels of government: sub-national, national, and supra-national at both regional and global levels. A special focus is given to the developments of European integration. Perspectives ...
- Created on 02 July 2021
- 15. Ethnolinguistic federalism and interborder conflict in Ethiopia
- (Essay)
- ... were collected from the National Census Report, YouTube and official government letters. The qualitative data were analysed through thematic analysis, while the quantitative data were expressed in terms ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
- 16. European Taxes and Fiscal Justice: Citizens’ Support and Lessons from the US
- (Essay)
- ... be effectively - and justly - levied by the highest level of government, the revenue from which could then be used for the common goods. Importantly, our data, based on YouGov survey conducted in 11 European ...
- Created on 30 March 2021
- 17. Centre-state Relations: A Kerala Experience
- (Essay)
- ... instance of the formation of a government through ballot by the communists in Asiatic region. The congress party was in power in Centre and in all other states when Kerala became the lone communist state. ...
- Created on 21 January 2021