The Centre on Constitutional Change is a leading hub for the comparative study of territorial politics and governance in the United Kingdom and beyond.
What explains regional differences in research and development expenditure? Juan A. Román-Aso, Fernando Coca Villalba, and Irene Bosch Frigola examine regions across Southern Europe, finding that institutional quality, particularly the impartiality of public administration, is positively associated with R&D spending.
John Osmond writes on the 1979 and 1997 referendums in Wales and on his recently published documentary novel which covers this period.
Fiscal decentralisation promises to bring government closer to citizens and reduce regional inequalities, but its success depends on the institutions receiving these powers. Drawing on departmental data from Colombia between 2005 and 2020, Jaime E. Ávila-Álvarez, Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros, and Jennifer Martínez-Ferrero examine how armed conflict and corruption undermine these ambitions, allowing public resources to be captured by armed groups and local elites.
As devolved nations act as laboratories for democratic reform, Westminster should pay close attention to their experiments
This talk will explore the legislative progress, cabinet appointments, and major policies that have characterised the early days of Keir Starmer’s Labour administration.
What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, attacks on the modern…
This session examines how political parties approached candidate selection, crafted their messaging, and built their political brands during the 2024 general election campaign
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