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The Centre on Constitutional Change is a leading hub for the comparative study of territorial politics and governance in the United Kingdom and beyond.

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Regional and Federal Studies
28 May 2026

Institutional conflict in regional development: path dependence in the free trade zone and decentralization of Batam, Indonesia

This blog argues that regional development can become deeply complicated when multiple government institutions operate within the same territory without clearly defined authority.

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Regional and Federal Studies
19 May 2026

When provinces borrow in dollars: Argentina’s lessons for federal debt governance

Alcides Bazza and Juan Pablo Tedesco examine why Argentine provinces have repeatedly faced debt restructuring, arguing that the central problem lies in the currency composition of subnational debt

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Centre on Constitutional Change
18 May 2026

Senedd Election 2026: Rupture and Radicalism in Welsh Politics

Nye Davies writes on the 2026 Senedd election and how it reflected sharply differing fortunes for each party

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Centre on Constitutional Change
15 May 2026

Irish Unity: Why the 'Others' Matter, North and South

Identity shifts across the island are bringing new alignments and new dimensions to the debate on Irish unity.

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09 February 2026, 1:00pm

Was Scottish devolution broken from the start?

Join Dr. David Rogers, the former Constitution and Cabinet Director at the Scottish Government, for a talk and Q&A session

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23 January 2026, 10:00am

Roundtable: An interdisciplinary conversation on the politics of place

An opportunity for academics and researchers broadly interested in spatial inequalities to share their research expertise

Still a Model? What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from German Federalism
11 November 2025, 6:00pm

Still a Model? What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from German Federalism

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.

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27 February 2025, 3:30pm

Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories

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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