The Centre on Constitutional Change is a leading hub for the comparative study of territorial politics and governance in the United Kingdom and beyond.
Summarising his recent paper in Regional and Federal Studies, Nigussie Daba Heyi examines the real extent of regional policy autonomy within Ethiopia’s federal system, revealing a significant gap between constitutional design and political practice.
Nigeria stands at a critical juncture as democratic norms across West Africa deteriorate. While neighbouring states have slid into overt authoritarianism through military coups, Nigeria’s 2023 elections revealed a quieter but nonetheless troubling erosion of democratic accountability.
Innovation and local growth depend on people who are willing to take chances, yet new research on Norway suggests that these risk-takers are disproportionately drawn to the capital and larger cities.
Caerphilly has long been an archetypal Labour seat: a post-industrial town imbued with the symbols and legacies of working-class labour politics. Yet this legacy has not been enough to prevent an historical defeat. Read Nye Davies on why the result in Caerphilly should act as a wake-up call to Welsh Labour, despite many in the party having warned against reading too much into the defeat.
This event explores whether German federalism still offers useful lessons for Scotland and the UK. It will consider how Germany's system of territorial governance has evolved, what challenges it now faces, and how this experience might inform ongoing debates about devolution, democracy, and reform in Scotland and the wider UK.
Scholarship on international sovereignty generally adopts a binary conception: territories either have international recognition, or they lack it and remain unrecognized entities within fragmented states.
Why do independence movements win overwhelming support nearly everywhere except in wealthy democracies of the global North?
Studies of UK social policies that fail to understand the multi-level competencies and policy differences of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland may contribute to creating a ‘scalar fallacy’ of a single and unified UK welfare state.
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