ISSN: 2036-5438
- 21. The Current Challenges to Asymmetric Federalism in India in Comparative Perspective
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- 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
- 22. 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
- 23. Federalism and institutional structure
- (Editorial)
- Giacomo Delledonne As I am writing these lines, institutional developments on both sides of the Atlantic have shown, once again, how complex the interplay of federalism and democracy is. In the ...
- Created on 22 March 2024
- 24. The Functional Federalism of the United Arab Emirates
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- Nisrine Abiad Although only a young federation, the United Arab Emirates is prosperous and well-functioning, and its success set it apart from numerous unaccomplished federal experiments in the ...
- Created on 31 January 2024
- 25. Disability and Federalism. A Rejoinder
- (Essay)
- The aim of this article is to comment on Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Implementation of the CRPD in Federal Systems and Its Implications edited by Delia Ferri, Francesco ...
- Created on 14 November 2023
- 26. Comments on Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ‘The intersection of International Law and the competences relating of PWD in federal systems’
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- The aim of this article is to comment on Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Implementation of the CRPD in Federal Systems and Its Implications edited by Delia Ferri, Francesco ...
- Created on 14 November 2023
- 27. Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Disability-oriented and theoretical consideration of a legal philosopher
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- This article aims to dialogue with Delia Ferri, Francesco Palermo and Giuseppe Martinico, editors of the volume Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Implementation of the CRPD ...
- Created on 14 November 2023
- 28. Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Introduction to the Symposium
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- The aim of this article is to offer an introduction to the Symposium devoted to Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Implementation of the CRPD in Federal Systems and Its Implications ...
- Created on 14 November 2023
- 29. 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
- 30. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries
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- 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
- 31. Earmarking grants in a federal polity
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- 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
- 32. Federalism in the 2015 and 2018 Peace Agreements in South Sudan – But What Kind of Federalism?
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- ... of people and influx of refugees into neighbouring countries and beyond. The Southern Sudan region was a battleground for multiple rounds of civil war. A federal or federal-type arrangement was proposed ...
- Created on 20 June 2022
- 33. 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
- 34. Federalism, political culture and the Question of Remaking Nigeria
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- 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
- 35. Perspectives on Federalism web-site is updated as soon as new contributions are approved by reviewers and revised by the authors. They are then collected into three issues a year. You can freely download ...
- (Archives)
- Perspectives on Federalism web-site is updated as soon as new contributions are approved by reviewers and revised by the authors. They are then collected into three issues a year. You can freely download ...
- Created on 27 July 2021
- 36. Ethnolinguistic federalism and interborder conflict in Ethiopia
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- This study examines the interplay between federalism and interborder conflict between the Tigrai and Amhara regions of Ethiopia. To this effect, secondary data, both qualitative and quantitative, ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
- 37. Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia
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- 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
- 38. Jurisdiction and Pluralisms: Judicial Functions and Organisation in Federal Systems
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- The thematic focus of this issue of Perspectives on Federalism shall analyse phenomena of pluralism in the judiciary of federal systems: ‘Jurisdiction and Pluralisms: Judicial Functions and Organisation ...
- Created on 12 December 2020
- 39. In search of the identity of the Brazilian constitutional order: a dormant issue on this side of the Atlantic
- (Essay)
- ... dialogical process. It is continuously constructed through the tensions between past and future, consensus and dissent. The article identifies the structural pillars of this identity within the 1988 Federal ...
- Created on 27 March 2026
- 40. Towards a next generation of joint borrowing in Europe
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- Ettore Dorrucci and Stefano Rossi Europe’s experience with the issuance of supranational debt backed by national sovereigns has spanned over seven decades by now. Despite differing aims and designs, ...
- Created on 02 February 2026




