ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe
- (Essay)
- ... The findings underscore the enduring diversity of capital city arrangements, shaped by historical, constitutional, and local autonomy factors, with no uniform trend emerging despite European integration ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 2. New Trends in Comparative Federalism. A Special Issue. Final Remarks
- (Essay)
- Giuseppe Martinico and Matteo Monti In this special issue, we have gathered experts from different legal systems, and critical voices who have explored new trends in comparative federalism from ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 3. The Road Less Travelled: Constitutionalising Internal Secession
- (Essay)
- ... secession is exclusively granted on the sole basis of ethnicity. This approach inextricably links ethnic rights to territorial claims, overlooking other relevant factors such as population size, geography, ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 4. 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
- 5. 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
- 6. How Multilevel Governance Structures and Crisis Mitigating Measures Impact Political Trust: a Systematic Literature Review
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- 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
- 7. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
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- ... 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
- 8. Decriminalizing Abortion in Federal Systems
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- This article considers the decriminalization of abortion in federal systems - decentralised and centralised. While factors external to the governance model influence whether abortion is decriminalized, ...
- Created on 04 April 2022
- 9. The Conference on the Future of Europe and the Reform of the EU
- (Editorial)
- ... or even as an initiative which backfired, having created expectations that may not be fulfilled. Its success or failure depends on the behaviour of citizens and institutional actors within the Conference, ...
- Created on 30 November 2021
- 10. The International Climate Legal Regime and the Role of the AFOLU Sector
- (Essay)
- ... hence all relevant international actors will need to cooperate with each other in order to address it. Secondly, there is a number of sectors contributing to the global emission of greenhouse gasses (GHG) ...
- Created on 17 September 2021
- 11. Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia
- (Essay)
- ... configuration had achieved such stability in the century before 1991? This paper shows how, once they lost their representation in the Senate, regional actors had few institutional levers at the national ...
- Created on 19 January 2021