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1. Federalism beyond government: thinking outside the (institutional) box through commons governance: (Essay); Nicolò Paolo Alessi and Chiara Salati Institutional pluralism, the traditional focus of federal studies, is increasingly complemented by forms of governance that challenge constitutional (and federal) ...; Created on 07 August 2026
2. 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
3. The real choice: European or national rearmament, supranational or intergovernmental European defence?: (Editorial); ... global, solutions, two proposals usually are put forward. On the one hand a federalist one, aiming at creating a truly supranational policy to deal with the issue. On the other hand an intergovernmental ...; Created on 09 May 2025
4. The Treaty on European Union’s Mutual Defence Clause: Analysis and Future Perspectives: (Essay); ... architecture. Notably, it features an unusually broad casus foederis, operates on a horizontal, reciprocal, and intergovernmental basis, and shares an overlapping scope with two other mutual assistance ...; Created on 15 August 2026
5. Delimitation, Malapportionment, and Federal Equity: The Political Economy of Representation in India: (Essay); ... on political alignment between state and central governments. The empirical results answer two questions. As for the impact of overrepresentation on fiscal transfers, the results of the baseline specifications ...; Created on 15 August 2026
6. Towards a next generation of joint borrowing in Europe: (Essay); ... and resilience – and do so, for the first time, on a permanent, strategic basis. We explain how a ‘coalition of the willing’ open to future entrants could make headway through ad hoc intergovernmental ...; Created on 02 February 2026
7. US Federalism and the North-South Conflict: From Bicommunalism to Centralization: (Essay); Karl Kössler This article seeks to explore to what extent and how the North-South conflict in the United States and attempts at its resolution have interacted with the evolution of American federalism. ...; Created on 08 January 2026
8. A Comparative Review of the Federal Security Models in Nigeria and the United States of America: (Essay); Akapoti-Ajibola Sunday James, Azeez Olaniyan and Iseolorunkanmi Joseph Federalism is a system of government that shares power among different levels of government. Two dominant security models in ...; Created on 16 December 2025
9. Responsibility without Power: Federalism and the Dilemma of Internal Security Management in Nigeria: (Essay); ... of Nigeria’s federal governance structure, which vests the sole constitutional responsibility for security maintenance in the federal government, leaving the component units with no formal control over ...; Created on 28 November 2025
10. Cities challenging federalism: how subsidiarity can help: (Essay); ... democratic innovations take place. In this sense, cities are gaining importance as players beyond states from both a government and governance perspective. Through a comparative analysis of the constitutional ...; Created on 26 November 2025
11. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe: (Essay); 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
12. Troubled Legacies: The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 and the Thin Line Between Impunity and Reconciliation: (Essay); ... the Irish government lodged an inter-state appeal against the United Kingdom before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for the second time since the 1978 judgment on Ireland v. United Kingdom (I) ...; Created on 18 June 2025
13. Modi’s Nehru Jacket: President’s Rule Invocations during the tenures of Prime Ministers Nehru and Modi: (Essay); Panch Rishi Dev Sharma The President’s Rule impositions under Article 356 of the Constitution of India extraordinarily empower the central government to determine ‘constitutional machinery failure ...; Created on 20 November 2024
14. New Caledonia: a Promising Attempt to Constitutionalize a Sovereignty Conflict Going Wrong: (Essay); ... two years after the inconclusive third and last independence referendum, tensions escalated and in May 2024, following deadly riots over a voting reform proposal, the French Government declared a 12-day ...; Created on 01 August 2024
15. The Road Less Travelled: Constitutionalising Internal Secession: (Essay); ... and administrative efficiency. Moreover, according to the procedures outlined in Article 47(3), it appears as though the federal and state governments are not empowered to play a decisive role in the internal ...; Created on 01 August 2024
16. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order: (Essay); ... the fundamentals of Canadian constitutional democracy and the rule of law. A former secessionist government in Quebec had used the sovereignty concept to claim a right to unilaterally declare independence ...; Created on 31 July 2024
17. Fiscal Decentralization in Federal Systems: A Comparative Story of a Principle and its Paradigms: (Essay); ... institutional framework and the dynamics of intergovernmental relations within federal systems. It appreciates both the self-rule and shared-rule dimensions, with the latter serving as an architectural ...; Created on 25 July 2024
18. ‘Spearheaded Asymmetry’ in “Multinational” European Federalising Processes: the Asymmetric Challenges in ‘Regional States’: (Essay); ... minorities are enriched by the aspiration to acquire the highest self-government possible within regional states (as a transitional asymmetry) and, simultaneously, to see their differential status recognised ...; Created on 24 July 2024
19. The Current Challenges to Asymmetric Federalism in India in Comparative Perspective: (Essay); ... in India in 2019 by the Union government and its judicial approval in 2023 has been very challenging to Indian federalism. Since the States in India are based mostly on some ethnic identity, any attack ...; Created on 22 July 2024
20. How Multilevel Governance Structures and Crisis Mitigating Measures Impact Political Trust: a Systematic Literature Review: (Essay); ... tiers of government (in)directly influence citizens’ trust and as citizens can express trust in different levels simultaneously. However, the effect of both contexts on political trust is rarely studied. ...; Created on 11 June 2024

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