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.
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 ...
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 ...
Presidents, Governors, and the Politics of Distribution in Federal Democracies: Primus Contra Pares in Argentina and Brazil
1st Edition
By Lucas I. González
February 05, 2018
Tensions between central authorities and subnational units over centralization and fiscal autonomy are on top of the political agenda in many developing federal countries. This book examines historical changes in the balance between the resources that presidents and governors control and the ...
Comparative Federalism and Intergovernmental Agreements: Analyzing Australia, Canada, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Parker
November 10, 2016
Intergovernmental agreements are an important instrument in federal systems, establishing new social programs, regulating agricultural practices, and even changing constitutions. Despite their importance, there have only been limited attempts to understand agreements in a comparative context or to ...
Minority Nations in Multinational Federations: A comparative study of Quebec and Wallonia
1st Edition
Edited
By Min Reuchamps
November 10, 2016
Multinational federations rest on the coexistence of two or more nations within a single polity. Within these federations, minority nations play a significant role as their character differs from the other building blocks of the federation. This edited volume offers a comprehensive comparison of ...
Regional Interests and Regional Actors: Wales and Saxony as Modern Regions in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Jörg Mathias
July 15, 2016
The question of how to organize and manage sustainable regional development has recently come to the fore in many places across the industrialized countries of Central and Western Europe, and especially within the European Union (EU).This book looks at the home-grown natural, economic and social, ...
Multinational Federalism and Value Pluralism: The Spanish Case
1st Edition
By Ferran Requejo
February 29, 2016
This book addresses the democratic accommodation of national pluralism through federal rules. The key question is: can federalism be a fair and workable way of articulating multinational societies according to revised liberal-democratic patterns? In recent years, scholarly discussion on this issue ...
Federal Democracies
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Burgess, Alain-G. Gagnon
December 07, 2015
Federal Democracies examines the evolution of the relationship between federalism and democracy. Taking the late 18th century US Federal Experience as its starting-point, the book uses the contributions of Calhoun, Bryce and Proudhon as 19th century conceptual prisms through which we can witness ...
The Case for Multinational Federalism: Beyond the all-encompassing nation
1st Edition
By Alain-G. Gagnon
June 05, 2013
Throughout the world, liberal-democracies are grappling with increasing claims made in the name of minority national, socio-cultural and ethno-cultural identities that seek greater recognition in the institutions of the nation-state. This work inserts itself into debates centred on diversity ...