This article discusses the Scottish Devolution and the potential repercussion of the 2014 consultative referendum over Scottish independence in Spain. The 2014 referendum might be perceived as one of the many effects of the recent nationalist revival and its result is still a matter of...

This article discusses the Samoan constitutional system and its distinctive ‘mix’ of traditional and modern democracy. On the one hand, the Constitution endorses a series of universal values and the division of power. On the other hand, the chief of the family, called the Matai, is chosen by...

This draft of a paper that discusses the jurisdictional accommodation of religious freedom in Australia. In particular, by considering the recent jurisprudence of the High Court of Australia (hereafter the HCA), the paper examines the constitutional legitimacy of government policies that grant...

Habermas proposes a new solution to the problematic relation between republican values and democracy. He asserts that a new model of social cohesion is needed and he suggests that the sense of community in a democratic society should be founded exclusively on the acceptance and support of a...

This article discusses the limits of Italian immigration policies and their effects on the Italian market of highly skilled individuals. Highly skilled individuals are normally perceived as valuable resources that a country should foster and even, if possible, attract from other states (Meyer...

What is national identity? What is its relation with constitutional democracy? The post Westphalian principles of national sovereignty and state unity, Bauman argues, are challenged internally by regionalism and externally by cosmopolitanism. The dilemma is whether we can reconcile shifting...