Publications [#382265] of Bahar Leventoglu

Journal Articles

1. Leventoglu, B; Vanberg, G; Waggoner, A, Federalism, political imbalance, and the right to secession, Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 36 no. 1 (March, 2025), pp. 26-43 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/14)

   Abstract:
   Scholars have generally taken a negative view of the inclusion of secession rights in federal constitutions. Adopting a constitutional political economy perspective, we challenge this consensus by highlighting the critical role that the right to secession can play in enforcing a federal bargain in the face of significant political imbalance among federal sub-units. We demonstrate that the inclusion of a secession right can allow for unanimous constitutional agreement to the formation of a federation in circumstances in which such agreement cannot be reached on a federation without a right to secession, even if union is potentially in the interests of all members.