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Explaining accommodation and resistance to demands for independence referendums in the UK and Spain

Authors: Daniel Cetrà and Malcolm Harvey

Opinion

Austrian Federal Reform Stops Before It Starts

Patrick Utz

The promise of ‘change’ was key for the Austrian Christian democrats’ landslide victory in last year’s general elections.

Opinion

Referendums in Northern Italy: Electoral Test Run or Trigger for Constitutional Change?

Patrick Utz

The 2017 referendums in the northern Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto may have received less international attention than events in Catalonia, says Patrick Utz, but they will have implica

Publication

Constitutional Politics and the Territorial Question in Canada and the United Kingdom

M. Keating, G. Laforest (Eds.) - Constitutional Politics and the Territorial Question in Canada and the United Kingdom

Federalism and Devolution Compared

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Event report - Constitutional Change in Canada and the UK: Challenges to Devolution and Federalism

Federalism in Canada and devolution in the United Kingdom both face emerging challenges. Questions exist over the right level of social solidarity and welfare.

Publication

Seeing the Same Canada? Visible Minorities’ Views of the Federation

Abstract

Canada’s history has been marked by competing visions of the country and regional grievances about how the federation works.

Opinion

from Montreal to Ottawa

Ailsa Henderson

On the night of the 1995 Quebec independence referendum, twenty years ago yesterday, then Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau, who had campaigned for independence, suggested that the Yes side had bee

Opinion

Justin Trudeau and Canadian Federalism

André Lecours

André Lecours, University of Ottawa, discusses how for the first time in decades, there is uncertainty about a new Canadian government's vision of federalism.

Opinion

The search for a stable territorial model

The current impasse playing out in the forthcoming election has been long in the making, says Joseph Valles, and recent actions by the Spanish government, the media and the Constitutional Cou

Opinion

Catalonia and Spain: Conflicting Majorities

In the first blog of a four-part series, Prof Josep Vallés considers how public attitudes across Spain towards levels of self-government have created a structural tension in Spanish democracy

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