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1. Sovereignty and Democracy: Overcoming Supranational Mutual Double-Binds from the Eurozone
(Francesco Pigozzo/Essay)

... European unification process to the progressive weakening of US hegemony in the world from 1971 onward. In this paper I point out that two double-binds mutually prevent a full (and widespread) understanding ...

2. 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 ...

3. Regional and Local People Consultation through Referendum
(Afonso Celotto/Note)

... in Italy at local and regional level is very heterogeneous and requires clear rules and more widespread information among the population ...

4. Speaking in Name of the Constituent Power: the Spanish Constitutional Court and the New Catalan Estatut
(Giacomo Delledonne/Note)

... those provisions aiming at ‘constitutionalizing’ Catalan identity have been widely neutralized or deprived of their legal significance. By doing so, however, the Court has attracted widespread criticism, ...