Nicolò P. Alessi, Ph.D., University of Bern, is a post-doc researcher at that university. He has authored several publications in the areas of regionalism, federalism, minority and indigenous rights, including A Global Law of Diversity: Evolving Models and Concepts (Routledge, 2024).Martina Trettel, Ph.D., Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac research, is a senior researcher at that institute. She is an expert on deliberative and participatory democracy. She has authored several publications on these topics in academic journals as well as in edited books.

• Foreword: The Inextricable Link between Federalism and the Law of Diversity  Francesco PalermoList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionNicolò P. Alessi and Martina TrettelPart 1Federalism and Non-territorial Autonomy1 Federalism and Non-territorial Autonomy: Revisiting Two Interrelated ConceptsKarl Kössler2 Non-territorial Autonomy and the Law of Diversity: Challenging Pre-established Positions in Domestic LawTove H. Malloy3 Innovative Forms of Autonomy and the Role of Federalism: A Comparative and Theoretical PerspectiveNicolò P. AlessiPart 2Federalism and Participatory Democrac4 Federalism and Participatory Democracy: A Manifold Balancing ActJared Sonnicksen5 Rethinking Participatory Democracy through Federalism: Citizen Participation, Power-Sharing and Decision-Making ProcessesMartina Trettel6 Participatory Democracy in Spain’s Autonomous Regions: Some Tools to Strengthen Democratic DevelopmentEnriqueta ExpósitoPart 3Federalism and Legal Pluralism7 Federalism, Legal Pluralism and the Law of DiversityKyriaki Topidi8 Measurement and Change in Federalism and Legal PluralismMichael G. Breen9 Some Ideas on Diversities, Federalisms, and PluralismsRoberto ToniattiIndex