Federalism “Roadshow” in the Philippines
This week the Department of the Interior and Local Government is holding a Center for Federalism and Constitutional Reform "roadshow" to educate constituents on the types…
This week the Department of the Interior and Local Government is holding a Center for Federalism and Constitutional Reform "roadshow" to educate constituents on the types…
Ling Li and Wenzhang Zhou review the constitutional issues of central-local relations, party-state relations, and power relations in the Politburo within the framework of authoritarian…
Spain's Supreme Court has sentenced a group of Catalan leaders to jail in the wake of the 2017 referendum on Catalan independence (password required).…
Alberta and other provinces are looking to Quebec's experience in dealing with the national government as a map to greater autonomy. Read more here.
Nepal Administrative Staff College has established the Federalism Study Center, which will carry out research related to the nation's newly established federal system of…
Amitabha Pande writes that the change in Kashmir's status is an "assault on the fundamental principles of federalism that are embedded in the Constitution…
Lekha S. Chakraborty outlines the many developments that are changing the nature of the nation's fiscal federalism. Read more here.
Amitabh Kant writes that competitive and cooperative federalism are the secrets to the nation's success. Kant contends that the two types of federalism are…
In considering the New Democratic Party's platform, an op-ed in The Globe and Mail compares governing the nation to a game of Jenga in which "Newton's third…
B. Vinod Kumar writes that a recent development in the Fifteenth Finance Commission has raised concerns that it will lead to "a reversal of…
The Communist Party of India has condemned the national government's revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status as an attack on democracy and federalism. Read…
Chris Selley urges the national government to intervene in legal challenges to Quebec's passage of a law restricting certain civil servants from wearing religious symbols…
In an op-ed, Yonatan T. Fessha contends that a proposed federal educational plan that would require the teaching of the national language, as opposed to regional…
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