ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa. A Rejoinder
- (Review articles)
- Aslı Ü. Bâli, Omar M. Dajani This work critically analyses the Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, edited by Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani, ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 2. Book Review: Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa - Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani (eds.)
- (Review articles)
- Nickson Mayieka Oira This work critically analyses the Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, edited by Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani, Cambridge University ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 3. Fiscal Decentralization in Federal Systems: A Comparative Story of a Principle and its Paradigms
- (Essay)
- ... and a comprehensive approach to (fiscal) federalism. Against the wake of an escalating recentralization, a renewed understanding of fiscal decentralization is adopted. This perspective integrates the ...
- Created on 25 July 2024
- 4. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity
- (Essay)
- ... as the capital remains underdeveloped. Despite its central place in Italian history and identity, Rome’s constitutional status has long been ambiguous in legal terms, only formally recognized in 2001. ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 5. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe
- (Essay)
- ... from dominant "city-states" like Berlin and Vienna to decentralized capitals such as Bern and The Hague – while emphasizing shared challenges in governance, financial autonomy, and intergovernmental cooperation. ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 6. 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
- 7. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order
- (Essay)
- ... constitution. The two western provinces are using the provincial form of sovereignty to assert maximum autonomy in key areas of their economy and society in which they share jurisdiction with the central ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 8. The Current Challenges to Asymmetric Federalism in India in Comparative Perspective
- (Essay)
- Harihar Bhattacharyya The article examines the various facets of the challenges to asymmetric federalism in India in comparative perspective and in the appropriate theoretical framework of asymmetric ...
- Created on 22 July 2024
- 9. The Unsettled Question of the Constitutional Framework and the Interpretative Authority in the Danish Rigsfællesskab
- (Essay)
- ... in cases of internal conflicts of laws. This contribution aims to stimulate reflection on the decentralized Danish Rigsfællesskab, which may also offer insights applicable to other decentralized constitutional ...
- Created on 18 April 2024
- 10. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions
- (Essay)
- Cristian Altavilla Sub-national constitutional law constitutes a fundamental chapter of federal theory that, despite its diversity and richness, has been little explored. Recently, n all federal ...
- Created on 12 March 2024
- 11. EU for Africa: Revitalizing the Role of the SDR
- (Editorial)
- ... born in 1969, shortly before the Bretton Woods regime collapsed, in August 1971. The birth of the SDRs was the result of long and tiring discussions between central bankers and leading international experts, ...
- Created on 16 December 2022
- 12. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries
- (Essay)
- ... expressing the territorial dimension. Alternative formats of subnational participation in central government have emerged, such as executive-based bodies comprising the central and regional governments ...
- Created on 06 December 2022
- 13. 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
- 14. Climate Change and the Livestock Sector’s Mitigation Potential: A Seized Opportunity for the International Climate Regime?
- (Essay)
- Climate change is destined to remain a central topic of the international political agenda for the decades to come. Several climate negotiations have been conducted over the last three decades, and a ...
- Created on 26 July 2022
- 15. Decriminalizing Abortion in Federal Systems
- (Essay)
- 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
- 16. The EU-Member State Relationship as a Principal-Agent Problem
- (Essay)
- Ever since the European Union came into existence many theories have addressed the state of European integration. This paper tries to offer a further interpretation building on the principal-agent concept. ...
- Created on 21 October 2021
- 17. Centre-state Relations: A Kerala Experience
- (Essay)
- ... these two path breaking reforms made two most influential communities in Kerala against the government. The congress party made better use of the situation with the support of the Central government and ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 18. Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia
- (Essay)
- In 1991, Colombia shifted from a territorial regime that combined shared rule with limited self-rule to the opposite configuration: extensive self-rule without shared rule. The radical shift between ...
- Created on 19 January 2021