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Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurac Research, Chiara is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Macerata, with a thesis on the implementation of the principle of horizontal subsidiarity in Italian cities through the commons, from a wider European public law perspective. Her main research interests comprise participatory democracy and democratic innovations, cities and other local governments, subsidiarity, the commons. She is a member of the research group Government and Law and the Metropolitan Legal Lab of the University of Antwerp. Since 2018 she collaborates with Labsus-Laboratorio per la sussidiarietà with action-oriented research on subsidiarity.