Varieties of federal governance : Major contemporary models
Saxena Rekha
Varieties of federal governance : Major contemporary models
- New Delhi Cambridge University Press 2011
- 493p xiii
Contents: I - Theoretical and Comparative Dimensions 1 - Federalism: An Alternative Category in Political Thought? By Thomas O. Hueglin, Wilfrid Laurier University; 2 - Governance of Capital Cities in Federal Countries: Comparative Perspectives-By Enid Slack, University of Toronto, Rupak Chattopadhyay, Forum of Federations, Canada;
II - Presidential Federal Systems; 3 - Political Coercion and Administrative Cooperation in U.S. Intergovernmental Relations By John Kincaid, Lafayette College, USA
4 - What Makes the Swiss Multicultural Federalism Work- By Lidija R. Basta Fleiner, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Thomas Fleiner, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 5 - Local Governments in the Brazilian Federation By Fernando Rezende, Getúlio Vargas Foundation; 6 - Russian Federalism: Does it Work? By Galina Gribanova, Herzen Pedagogical University, Russia 7 - Federalism in Pakistan By Veena Kukreja, University of Edinburgh;
III - Commonwealth Parliamentary Federations; 8 - Constitutional Normalization in Canada: The Significance of Failure of the Charlottetown Agreement- By Ronald L. Watts, Queen's University, Canada; 9 - The Australian Senate: Form, Function and Effectiveness-By Simon Evans, The University of Melbourne; 10 - Federalizing India's Political Parties: National All-India and National Interstate Parties-By Douglas V. Verney, York University, Toronto; 11 - Malaysia: Centralized Federalism in an Electoral One-Party State-By Wong Chin Huat, Monash University Sunway Campus, Malaysia, James Chin, Monash University Sunway Campus; 12 - Promises Unmet: Multi-level Government in South Africa-By Christina Murray, University of Cape Town, Richard Simeon, Harvard University;
IV - Non-Commonwealth Parliamentary Federations in Afro-Asia; 13 - Multi-ethnicity and Federalism: Constitutional Provisions in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopiapp 263-281 By Petra Zimmermann-Steinhart, The Center for International Migration (CIM); 14 - Federalism and Political Inclusion: Choices facing Nepal; By Yash Ghai, United Nations Develoment Programme, Nepal, Jill Cottrel, United Nations Develoment Programme, Nepal;
V - European Parliamentary Federations; 15 - The German Federal System and its Reforms: Structures, Taboos and the ‘Shylock Principle’- By Uwe Leonardy, University of Bonnl 16 - The Belgian Federation: Tools of Appeasement, Instruments of Confrontation- By Johanne Poirier, Université Libre de Bruxelle; 17 - Federalism as Ideology and as Institutional Form in the Spanish Estado de las Autonomías (1977–2004)- By Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Centro de Estudios Políticos Constitucionales (CEPC), Spain
VI - Devolutionary Systems- 18 - The Union's Place: Scottish-English Relations after Devolution-By Charlie Jeffery, University of Edinburgh 19 - The Federal Debate in Sri Lanka-By Rohan Edrisinha, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka;
VII - Supranational Confederalism/Federalism?- 20 - The European Union and the Competence Catalogue after the Lisbon Treaty: Insights from Comparative Federalism- By Wilfried Swenden, University of Edinburgh.