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1. Jurisdiction and Pluralism: Judicial Functions and Organization in Federal Systems. The Case of Germany
(Dian Schefold/Essay)

... between federalist organization and central guarantee of the rule of law determines the actual system. ...

2. From the Unitary Patent Package to a Federal EU Patent Law
(Juliana Almeida and Guilherme Oliveira e Costa/Essay)

... cooperation mechanism, is evidence of federalist manifestations of the EU as a sui generis organisation. ...

3. Differentiated integration contingent on objective ability: a federalist critique
(Samo Bardutzky/Essay)

... role. It presents a federalist critique of this development, drawing on the work of Daniel Elazar, discussing the concepts of non-centralization, federal process and federal covenant in the context of ...

4. Federalism in Pakistan: Of Promises and Perils
(Zubair Shahid/Essay)

... systems and enhanced constitutionalism. In the course of the analysis, this paper examines the dynamics and determinants of federalist/subnational politics in Pakistan, the formal constitutional and ordinance ...

5. Refocusing Europe on growth and employment: the citizens’ initiative for an extraordinary European plan
(Paolo Ponzano/Editorial)

... Valls, declared that Europe needed to refocus on growth and employment. This demand had been expressed as early as 7 January 2014 by numerous civil society organisations (Federalist and European movements, ...

6. Regional electoral legislation in Italy. A short essay on the rise and fall of the myth of territorial differentiation
(Enrico Grosso/Essay)

... widespread use of federalist rhetoric, and how scantily independent they appear to be. The effect is that the actual uniformity of electoral systems will cause a further step towards uniformity of party ...

7. Economic Epistemology and Methodological Nationalism: a Federalist Perspective
(Fabio Masini/Note)

Economics is based on the assumption that the only administrative and juridical relevant framework of both theory and policy is the nation-State. We claim that such methodological nationalism is detrimental ...

8. Call for papers on methodological nationalism and cosmopolitanism in social sciences
(Editors/Editorial)

 Call for papers on methodological nationalism and cosmopolitanism in social sciences. Deadline October 31th 2011.   Federalist author from Lionel Robbins to Ludwig Dehio, Emery Reves and Mario Albertini ...

9. The Federal Perspective in the Schuman Declaration
(Sergio Pistone/note)

This short note aims at providing an analysis of the Schuman Declaration focused on the following points: 1) the genesis of the Schuman Declaration; 2) its federalist content; 3) its topicality ...

10. Strengthening the Participation of Local Congresses in the Mexican Constitutional Reform Process
(Rodrigo Brito Melgarejo/Note)

... The purpose of this reform, as established in the Statement of Reasons, is to increase the participation of State Legislatures in the constitutional reform process, in order to strengthen the federalist ...