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The reports on this page provide guidance on the allocation of legislative competencies between national and subnational governments. Additional materials on these and related topics can be found by clicking on the keyword links below.

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This document is part of a series of papers produced by PILPG experts seeking to provide legal counsel to the Iraqi government during the Constitutional Review Process in 2007. This paper compares constitutional frameworks related to the distribution of powers. The examples provided in the document cover the allocation of specific powers to the provinces, the allocation of specific powers to the central government, as well as cases where specific powers of each level of government are explicitly defined, but without concurrent power. The relevant constitutional provisions are provided as footnotes.

This document is part of a series of papers produced by PILPG experts seeking to provide legal counsel to the Iraqi government during the Constitutional Review Process in 2007. The purpose of this memorandum is to explain the methods by which states allocate powers between the central government and the provincial governments in constitutions. It presents four main approaches, when: (1) specific powers are allocated to the provincial governments and remaining unnamed powers are reserved for the central government (2) specific powers are allocated to the central government and the remaining unnamed powers are reserved for the provincial governments (3) specific powers of each level of government are explicitly defined and there are no reserved powers or (4) specific powers are allocated to neither the central nor the provincial governments. The annex provides examples of specific constitutional frameworks regarding the different modalities of distribution of powers.

This document is part of a series of papers produced by PILPG experts seeking to provide legal counsel to the Iraqi government during the Constitutional Review Process in 2007. This paper provides examples of constitutional frameworks related the allocation of residual powers to central or regional governments.

This is an extract from one of seven papers on federalism prepared for the Nepali Swiss Forum on Federalism and compiled as "Input Papers on Federalism". It addresses the distribution of powers in a federal system.