Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization
About the Book Series
The series publishes outstanding scholarship on federalism and decentralization, defined broadly, and is open to theoretical, empirical, philosophical, and historical works. The series includes two types of work: firstly, it features research monographs that are substantially based on primary research and make a significant original contribution to their field. Secondly, it contains works that address key issues of policy-relevant interest or summarise the research literature and provide a broad comparative coverage.
Indian Federalism: Structure, Process and Agency
1st Edition
By Harihar Bhattacharyya
February 24, 2026
Indian Federalism: Structure, Process and Agency offers a comprehensive and critical account of Indian Federalism, its origin, development, structural, innovations and functioning, and resilience in the face of new challenges. Federalism in India is a relative success story as a model of governance...
When Governments Collide: Competition Within Nations in Québec and Catalonia
1st Edition
By Alexandre Couture Gagnon
January 22, 2026
When Governments Collide: Competition Within Nations in Québec and Catalonia offers a comparative analysis of Québec and Catalonia from the perspective of minority cultures operating within broader states, where their cultures and identities sometimes come in conflict with that of the majority, ...
Defensive Federalism: Protecting Territorial Minorities from the "Tyranny of the Majority"
1st Edition
Edited
By Ferran Requejo, Marc Sanjaume-Calvet
May 27, 2024
Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies, exploring the concept of defensive federalism as a protection of self- government against the "tyranny of the majority". The empirical evidence on federal and regional polities often ...
Non-Territorial Autonomy and Decentralization: Ethno-Cultural Diversity Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Tove H. Malloy, Levente Salat
May 06, 2022
This volume describes and analyzes alternative and emerging models of non-territorial autonomy (NTA), particularly in relation to decentralization. The authors push the NTA debate in new directions by offering a re-conceptualization based on ethno-cultural bottom-up decentralized action that ...
Comparative Federalism and Covid-19: Combating the Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Nico Steytler
October 27, 2021
This comprehensive scholarly book on comparative federalism and the Covid-19 pandemic is written by some of the world’s leading federal scholars and national experts. The Covid-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented emergency for countries worldwide, including all those with a federal or ...
Federalism in Asia: India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal and Myanmar
2nd Edition
By Harihar Bhattacharyya
August 05, 2020
This comprehensive book critically analyzes the successes and failures of federalism in India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal and Myanmar for the political accommodation of ethno-regional diversity and assesses their comparative democratic significance for other countries in Asia. This revised new ...
Local Power, Territory and Institutions in European Metropolitan Regions: In Search of Urban Gargantuas
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernard Jouve, Christian Lefevre
June 30, 2020
A comparative analysis of eight different urban areas - Bologna, Bordeaux, Geneve-Lausanne, Lyons, Manchester, Rotterdam, Stuttgart and Torino - examining key urban issues that are high on the policy agenda of every national government....
Swiss Federalism: The Transformation of a Federal Model
1st Edition
By Adrian Vatter
December 09, 2019
The political and economic crisis of EU integration has made it increasingly apparent how challenging it is to bring together different sovereign cultures, languages and regions into a single political system. Switzerland – being one of the three classic federations in the world – can provide ...
Consolidation Policies in Federal States: Conflicts and Solutions
1st Edition
By Dietmar Braun, Christian Ruiz-Palmero, Johanna Schnabel
January 17, 2019
The Global Financial Crisis has led to a renewed attention for the management of public debt and deficits of advanced and developing industrial states. To successfully deal with such problems of public finances raises particular concerns in federal states where fiscal competencies are split between...
Emerging Practices in Intergovernmental Functional Assignment
1st Edition
By Gabriele Ferrazzi, Rainer Rohdewohld
January 17, 2019
Attaining the benefits of (especially fiscal) decentralization in government remains an enduring challenge, in part because the re-arrangement of public functions across levels of government has often been carried out poorly. This book aims to provide a firmer conceptual basis for the ...
Ethnic Conflict in Asymmetric Federations: Comparative Experience of the Former Soviet and Yugoslav Regions
1st Edition
By Gorana Grgić
January 17, 2019
In the last years of their existence, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) found themselves facing a similar and very grim state of affairs. After their disintegration, the former Yugoslav republics spiralled into a set of ethnic ...
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia: A Comparative Regional Study
1st Edition
By Asnake Kefale
February 12, 2018
This book examines the impact of the federal restructuring of Ethiopia on ethnic conflicts. The adoption of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia was closely related with the problem of creating a state structure that could be used as instrument of managing the complex ethno-linguistic diversity of the ...