Dealing with Territorial Cleavages: The Rise and Fall of Ukraine’s Faustian Bargain: Number 40
This Occasional Paper explores efforts in Ukraine to create a constitutional system that accommodates the country’s stark regional differences. The…
Theme: Democracy
Gender Equality And Federalism
This Report examines the role that governance structures – and more specifically federal and decentralized governance architectures – can play…
Sub-National Constitutions In Federal Systems
This document analyses how sub-national constitutions also form part of the overall constitutional framework for the federation.
Devolution and Federalism in Collapsed States: Constitutional Process and Design
This working paper examines the implications of state collapse for constitution-making and constitutional design, with a particular focus on devolution…
Natural Resources in Federal and Devolved Countries
The paper compares the differences between extractive resources—minerals and especially oil and gas—which can generate huge revenues for governments, and…
The Forum of Federations Handbook of Federal Countries 2020
Federal models of government have shaped history and demonstrated how diverse people can live together and govern together in relative…
Federalism: A Pathway to Peace?
This episode explores the application of federalism as a peacebuilding mechanism, including opportunities, limitations, and how we can achieve more…
COVID and Federalism: Taking the Temperature in 2022
This podcast explores how federal responses to COVID-19 have changed over the course of the crisis in Latin American, European,…
Federalism and the COVID-19 Crisis: State-Federal Tensions Arise in Malaysia
In this paper, Tricia Yeoh lays our how Malaysia used the pandemic response to weigh a more centralized approach and…
Federalism and the COVID-19 crisis: Federalism and the COVID-19 crisis: “Emergency Federalism” Russian Style
This document explains the impact of the COVID crisis on the Russian federation.