Perspectives on Federalism is a free on-line peer-reviewed journal, promoted by the Centre for Studies on Federalism.

1. European Citizens… Mind the Gap! Some Reflections on Participatory Democracy in the EU
(Delia Ferri/Essay)

... sin: the “democratic deficit”. Despite these innovations, the “democratic deficit” still exists as a deficiency with regard to “input legitimacy”, i.e. as a “discrepancy between the pervasive effects ...

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

... change were not able (or did not want) to introduce substantial differentiations and innovations and they have only created systems almost identical to one another. Such a conclusion is only seemingly ...

3. From the Constitution for Europe to the Reform Treaty: a literature survey on European Constitutional Law
(Giuseppe Martinico/Review article)

... of this review article: 1. The Constitution for Europe and the constitutional moment; 2. The Constitutional Treaty and the innovations “proposed”; 3. The European Court of Justice’s activism; 4. The ...