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.
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 ...
Multinational Federations
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Burgess, John Pinder
February 02, 2011
This is the first comparative volume available on multinational federations, bringing together an international range of experts on federalism. Multinational federations are federal states intended to provide a framework that can accommodate, manage and resolve some of the most intractable ...
Explaining Federalism: State, society and congruence in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany and Switzerland
1st Edition
By Jan Erk
August 10, 2010
This book deals with the theoretical and empirical questions of federalism in the context of five case studies: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany and Switzerland. The central argument is that in the long run the political institutions of federalism adapt to achieve congruence with the underlying ...
Mastering Globalization: New Sub-States' Governance and Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Stéphane Paquin, Guy LaChappelle
February 27, 2009
Contemporary globalization is transforming and undermining the role of the nation-state, causing it to lose its grip on both the national economy and identity. This is a penetrating analysis of this phenomenon and an explorationn of how governments - national, regional, local, global ...
New Borders for a Changing Europe: Cross-Border Cooperation and Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Liam O'Dowd, James Anderson, Thomas M. Wilson
March 01, 2003
The "deepening and widening" of the EU has thrown its changing internal and external borders into sharp relief. This work demonstrates that borders are key spaces within which issues such as identity, memory and trust, and communication between states continue to be played out and transformed....
Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Judy Batt, Kataryna Wolczuk
July 30, 2002
The papers that comprise this collection examine the role of competing European, national, ethnic and regional identities over the introduction of new regional levels of government in the former Soviet and now Central and Eastern European states....