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Research
All CFS staff are active researchers working on a broad range of topics in the field of federalism and multi-level systems in general.
Current projects
- Prof Burgess, Prof Sakwa and Dr Dardanelli are involved in a project exploring 'Federalism and Democracy', supported by the James Madison Trust.
- Prof Burgess is working on a project analysing the potential of federalim as a institutional tool of conflict resolution, based on a comparative analysis of Cyprus, Sri Lanka and Iraq. Comparing federal and state constitutions in comparative federalism and federation.
- Dr Dardanelli has started working on a comparative study of the impact of Euopean integration on the process of federalisation in Belgium, Spain and Italy.
Selected publications
- Who Was Publius—The Real Guy? Professor John Kincaid, Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service, and Director of the Meyner Centre for State and Local Government at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
Burgess, Michael. 2011. Constitutional Dynamics in Federal Systems: Sub-National Perspectives, Michael Burgess and Alan Tarr (Eds.), (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press) - Burgess, Michael. 2010 Variations on a Theme: James Bryce, federalism and democracy - from the Holy Roman Empire and the American Commonwealth to the British Empire in Michael Burgess and Alain-G. Gagnon (Eds.), Federal Democracies (London: Routledge).
- Burgess, Michael. 2009. Territorial and Non-Territorial Identities: Multinational Federalism in Multinational Federation. Paper prepared for the conference ‘Multinational Federalism in Perspective: A Viable Model?”, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 25-27 September 2009
- Burgess, Michael. 2009. Between a rock and a hard place: The Russian Federation in Comparative Perspective. Cameron Ross and Adian Campbell (Eds.), Federalism and Local Politics in Russia (London: Routledge)
- Burgess, Michael. 2008. Asking the same Question but getting different answers: The conditions of success and failure in Federal States. Paper prepared for the International Conference on “Assessing Territorial Pluralism: Empirical and Normative Perspectives”, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 16-17 May 2008
- Burgess, Michael. 2007. What is to Be Done? Bicommunalism, Federation and Confederation in Cyprus. In Michael Burgess and John Pinder (eds), Multinational Federations. London: Routledge
- Burgess, Michael. 2006. Territoriality and Federalism in the Governance of the European Union. In Michael Burgess and Hans Vollaard (eds), State Territoriality and European Integration. London: Routledge
- Burgess, Michael. 2006. Comparative Federalism – Theory and Practice. London: Routledge
- Burgess, Michael. 2000. Federalism and European Union: the Building of Europe, 1950-2000. London: Routledge
- Burgess, Michael. 1995. The British Tradition of Federalism. London: Leicester University Press
- Dardanelli, Paolo. 2006. Federalism: Institutional Adaptation and Symbolic Constraints. In Clive Church (ed.), Switzerland and the European Union. London: Routledge, 2006
- Dardanelli, Paolo. 2005. Between Britain and Europe: Europeanisation and Scottish Devolution. Manchester University Press
- Dardanelli, Paolo. 1999. Implementing Subsidiarity: Regional Policy from a British Perspective. Regional and Federal Studies 9/2: 69-88
- Sakwa, Richard. 2003. Chechnya: a Just War Fought Unjustly? In Bruno Coppieters and Richard Sakwa (eds), Contextualising Secession. Oxford: Oxford University Press