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More than three decades after the entry into force of the European Charter of Local Self-government our chapter sets out to assess to what extent European cities are, in their roles as policy-makers and policy-takers, truly self-governing. Thereby we look at cities that fulfil three criteria: that they are located in a federal country in a broad se...
This article aims to explore the role that Bougainville's arrangement of self-government within Papua New Guinea has played for resolving the ongoing conflicts revolving around the island region's political status. First, I set out to unearth the main drivers for its current autonomy, which are geographical location, identity formation and the need...
This papers aims to explore territorial referendums, i.e. votes on the own statehood of a territory, from a comparative constitutional law perspective along three dimensions. These are functions of, justifications for and the legal design of such referendums. The paper starts with identifying and analyzing four functions of such votes on a path tow...
