The Centre on Constitutional Change is a leading hub for the comparative study of territorial politics and governance in the United Kingdom and beyond.
Richard Parry contrasts the election results and governmental formation in Scotland and Wales in the new context of English Labour politics under Andy Burnham.
Sofia Marini and Gianluca Piccolino examine the Lega’s evolution through the career trajectories of its elected representatives, arguing that the composition of a party’s political class offers an important window onto its institutionalisation.
The Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt is not only another chapter in the rise of the far right in Europe. It also raises another question: what happens to German federalism when dramatic electoral shifts make Land governments harder to form and less predictable?
Madeleine O. Hosli, Caterina Zamparini, Oliver Price, and Vahistha Jyalita summarise a recent article published in Regional & Federal Studies, examining how major crises can accelerate the gradual federalization of the European Union.
Join Dr. David Rogers, the former Constitution and Cabinet Director at the Scottish Government, for a talk and Q&A session
An opportunity for academics and researchers broadly interested in spatial inequalities to share their research expertise
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.
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