| a.d. | Anno Domini (in the year of the Lord) |
| AaVv | Various authors |
| amba | Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires |
| anp | Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis (National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels) |
| apc | All Party Conference |
| aprc | All Party Representative Committee |
| arc | Australian Research Council |
| Art. | Article |
| b.c. | Before Christ |
| BBl | Bundesblatt (Federal Gazette) |
| B-C Pact | Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact |
| bea | Bureau of Economic Analysis, US Department of Commerce |
| bge | Entscheidungen des Schweizerischen Bundesgerichts (Sentences of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court) |
| BiH | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Blaw | Bachelor of Law |
| b-vg | Österreichisches Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz (Austrian Federal Constitutional Act) |
| caba | Autonomous City of Buenos Aires |
| cat | Commitee Against Torture |
| cbn | Coverage of Basic Needs Index |
| cc | Constitutional Court |
| cci | Council of Constitutional Inquiry |
| ccpr | Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| cdf | Constituency Development Funds |
| cdr | Cash Deposit Ratio |
| cedaw | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women |
| cerd | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
| cescr | Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| cf. | confer (compare with) |
| cglu | World Organization of United Cities and Local Governments |
| ch. | chapter |
| chf | Swiss Franc |
| Cmd | Command Papers |
| cnel | Consiglio nazionale dell’economia e del lavoro (The National Council for Economics and Labour) |
Council of Europe |
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| Col | Collection |
| conab | Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (National Supply Company) |
| consid. | considérant (consideration) |
| Const. | Constitution |
| crc | Commitee on the Rights of the Child |
| ct | Connecticut |
| d.l. | Decreto Legge (Law Decree) |
| d.P.C.m. | Prime Ministerial Decree |
| dbg | Bundesgesetz über die direkte Bundessteuer (Federal Law on Direct Federal Taxes) |
| D-C Pact | Dudley-Chelvanayakam Pact |
| Dig. | Digesta (Digest) |
| Diss. | Dissertation |
| dm | Health Ministry Decree |
| dpa | Dayton Peace Agreement |
| Dr. | Doctor |
| E. | Erwägung (Consideration) |
| e.c.d. | European Commission for Democracy |
| e.g. | exempli gratia (for example) |
| echr | European Court of Human Rights |
| ECtHR | European Convention for the Protection fo Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms |
| ed. / eds. | editor(s) |
| eez | Exclusive Economic Zone |
| eipa | European Institute of Public Administration |
| eprlf | Ealam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front |
| eq. | equation |
| et al. | et alii (and others) |
| et seq. | et sequens (and the following) |
| etc. | et cetera (and other similar things) |
| etom | Eelath Thamilar Otrumai Munnani (Tamil Separist Party) |
| EU | European Union |
| eubi | European Bank for Investments |
| EuConst | European Constitutional Law Review |
| eudeba | Editorial universitaria de Buenos Aires (University Press of Buenos Aires) |
| eurac | European Academy of Bozen |
| ezff | Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus-Forschung Tübingen (The European Center for Research on Federalism) |
| f. | folgend (and the following item) |
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| fdr | Fondo de Desarrollo Regional (Regional Development Fund) |
| FedCst | Federal Constitution |
| FiLaG | Bundesgesetz über den Finanz- und Lastenausgleich (Federal Law on the Equalisation of Finances and Burdens) |
| FiLaV | Verordnung über den Finanz- und Lastenausgleich (Federal Regulation on the Equalisation of Finances and Burdens) |
| fn. | footnote |
| fp | Federal Party |
| frc | Fiscal Revenue Commission |
| fs | Festschrift (Commemorative Publication) |
| f-vg | Österreichisches Finanz-Verfassungsgesetz (Austrian Fiscal Constitutional Act) |
| fwo | Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Fundamental Research Foundation Flanders) |
| gdp | Gross Domestic Product |
| h.r. | High Representative |
| Haw. | Hawaii |
| hdi | Human Development Index |
| hdz | Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| HoP | House of Peoples |
| How. | Benjamin Chew Howard |
| i.e. | id est (that is) |
| iacl | International Association of Constitutional Law |
| ibge | Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) |
| ibid. | ibidem (in that very place) |
| iccpr | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| ice | Research Unit for Institutional Change and European Integration |
| idpi | Institute of Social and Political Research |
| iff | Institut für Föderalismus (Institute of Federalism) |
| ilo | International Labour Organisation |
| imf | International Monetary Fund |
| indec | National Institute of Statistics and Censuses |
| ipea | Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Applicada (Institute of Applied Economic Research) |
| isee | Indicatore della Situazione Economica Equivalente (Index for evaluating the economic situation) |
| isga | Interim Self-Governing Authority |
Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Regionali Federali e sulle Autonomie (Institute for Studies on Federal Regional Systems and their Autonomies) |
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| istat | Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (National Statistics Institute) |
| ItCC | Italian Constitutional Court |
| iza | Institute of Labor Economics |
| jsc | Joint Standing Committee |
| jvp | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People’s Liberation Front) |
| kg | Kommanditgesellschaft (Limited partnership) |
| l.d. | Volume |
| lgbt | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender |
| ll.m | Legum Magister/Magistra (Master of Laws) |
| llrc | Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission |
| ln | Lega Nord (Northern League) |
| lssp | Lanka Sama Samaja Party |
| lt | Legge tributaria della Repubblica e Cantone Ticino (Ticino Tax Law) |
| Ltd. | Limited company |
| ltte | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| lumsa | Libera Università degli Studi Maria Ss. Assunta di Roma (Free University Maria ss. Assunta of Rome) |
| Mass. | Massachussets |
| Md | Maryland |
| mfm | Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management |
| Mlaw | Master of Law |
| MMag | Doppelmagister (Double master’s degree) |
| mp | Member of Parliament |
| Mr. | Mister |
| nato | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| nber | The National Bureau of Economic Research |
| nea | North East Region |
| neb | National Electoral Board |
| nfa | Nationaler Finanzausgleich (New Financial Equalisation) |
| no. / nos. | number(s) |
| noa | North West Region |
| nrgi | Natural Resource Governance Institute |
| nrnr | Non renewable natural resources |
| oecd | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| ohr | Office of High Representative |
| ols | Ordinary Least Squares |
| osce | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe |
| p. | page |
People’s Alliance |
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| para. | paragraph |
| PhD | Philosophiæ doctor (Doctor of Philosophy) |
| ppp | Purchasing Power Parity |
| pr. | principium (beginning) |
| Prof. | Professor |
| QoG | Quality of Government |
| rai | Regional Authority Index |
| ref. | reference |
| Rivista aic | Rivista Associazione Italiana die Costitutionalisti (Journal of the Italian Association of Constitutionalists) |
| roc | Rest of Canada |
| rs | Republika Srpska (Republic of Srpska) |
| schr | Swiss Centre of Expertise in Human Rights |
| sda | Bosniak Party of Democratic Action |
| sig | Solomon Islands Government |
| skmr | Schweizerische Kompetenzzentrum für Menschenrechte (Swiss Centre of Expertise in Human Rights schr) |
| slb | State Language Board |
| slfp | Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
| sng | Subnational governments |
| snnpr | Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples |
| Sri LR | Sri Lanka Law Reports |
| stv | Single Transferable Vote |
| subpara | subparagraph |
| tc | Tamil Congress |
| tha | Tobago House of Assembly |
| tig | Tobago Island Government |
| tna | Tamil Nationalist Alliance |
| tse | Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (Supreme Electoral Court) |
| ttg | Trinidad and Tobago Government |
| tuf | Tamil United Front |
| tulf | Tamil United Liberation Front |
| U.N. doc | United Nations documents |
| ubc | University of British Columbia |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| un hrc | United Nations Human Rights Committee |
| UN | United Nations |
| undp | United Nations Development Programme |
| undrip | United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
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| unfgg | United National Front for Good Governance |
| Univ. | University |
| uno | United Nations Organisation |
| unp | United National Party |
| upfa | United People’s Freedom Front |
| upr | Universal Periodic Review |
| uqam | Université du Quebec à Montreal |
| US | United States of America |
| USA | United States of America |
| v. / vs. | versus |
| vat | Value Added Tax |
| Venice Commission | European Commission For Democracy Through Law |
| VfSlg | Sammlung der Erkenntnisse und wichtigsten Beschlüsse des Verfassungsgerichtshofs (Compendium of judgments and most important decisions of the Constitutional Court) |
| vni | Vital National Interest |
| wwii | World War ii |
| ZBl | Schweizerisches Zentralblatt für Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht (Swiss Official Gazette for Constitutional and Administrative Law) |