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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

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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.

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

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

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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
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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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Decision Time for Catalonia

Daniel Cetrà
The forthcoming election in Catalonia will see pro-independence parties and civil society groups join forces under a banner of declaring independence if they secure a majority.
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Labour’s coalition dilemma has Spanish echoes

Daniel Cetrà

Anyone watching the Labour leadership’s refusal to rule out a post-election agreement with the SNP, would be forgiven for thinking such an arrangement was unique.

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