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, 2010 For the past two centuries, state-breaking has been the primary method of statemaking around the world. More than half the states currently represented at the United Nations emerged from the wreckage of colonial empires, the collapse of multinational ...
Armitage, David
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Country size and public good provision [PDF]
The paper studies the equilibrium size of countries. Individuals in small countries have greater influence over the nature of political decision making while individuals in large countries have the advantage of more public goods and lower tax rates.
K Staal
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The Predicament of Ethnic Federal System
African Journal of Political ScienceThe paper inquiries into ethnic federalism in lights of ethnic conflict and federal constitutional viability. It raises the basic question why some ethnic federations are successful in regulating ethnic relations while others are not.
Yohannes Getahun
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The Political Economy of Secession.
Secessionist movements present themselves to the global public as analogues of colonial liberation movements: long-established identities are denied rights of self-determination by quasi-imperial authorities.
Collier, Paul, Hoeffler, Anke
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, 2018 The Reference of the Supreme Court of Canada Re Secession of Quebec was the first time a tribunal directly addressed unilateral secession. Many international lawyers intervened in the proceedings, helping the Canadian Supreme Court to craft a very clear ...
Luigi Crema
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Within US Trade and the Long Shadow of the American Secession [PDF]
Using data from the US commodity flow surveys, we show that the historical Union-Confederacy border lowers contemporaneous trade between US states by about 16 percentrelative to trade flows within the former alliances.
Gabriel Felbermayr, Jasmin Gröschl
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Deciding on secession: how familiar and unknown futures shape loss aversion
Frontiers in Political ScienceLoss aversion is well supported by experimental evidence from structured and well-defined private decision-making tasks, yet its role in political dilemmas remains uncertain.
Benoît Béchard +3 more
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Constitutionalizing secession in order to harmonize constitutionality and democracy in territorial decentralized states like Spain [PDF]
, 2015 Congreso los Caminos del Federalismo (2.2015.Bilbao) = Ways of Federalism Conference, WoF (2.2015.Bilbao)This text aims to analyze whether constitutionalizing a secession procedure is an adequate way to harmonize the roles of constitutional legality and ...
Bastida Freijedo, Francisco José +1 more
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Secessionist Impulses and the Italian Legal System: The (Non) Influence of the Secession Reference
, 2018 The aim of this chapter is to analyse the impact of the Reference Re Secession of Quebec on the Italian legal system, looking at both the judgements of the Italian Constitutional Court and the strategies and narratives of the political actors.
Matteo Monti, Giacomo Delledonne
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BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND LAW. THE AMORALITY OF SECESSION
, 2019 This volume purports to explore the legal and political issues triggered by the new wave of secessionism. More specifically, those issues concern the interplay between notions of democracy (and democratic ends and means) and law (and the rule of law and ...
Margiotta, Costanza +6 more
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