This Constitutional Design Primer discusses emergency provisions in constitutions including declaring, terminating and renewing states of emergency, limitations on rights, concentration of power and postponing elections; as well as mechanisms for providing oversight of emergency powers.

This report from the Melbourne Forum on Constitution Building in Asia and Pacific provides an overview of the different forms of decentralization exhibited in constitutions across a number of Asia and Pacific states.

This Policy Paper from the Constitutional Transformation Network discusses the ways and degrees to which a state can decentralize its government functions.