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1. New Directions in Federalism Studies

   Edited by Jan Erk, Wilfried Swenden

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   Federalism has experienced a remarkable renaissance in recent decades – as an alternative way to accommodate ethnic differences; as a tool to combat remote, undemocratic and ineffective central governments; and lastly, as a means to promote economic performance in the developing world through...

   Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Belgium

   Institutions and Policy under Bipolar and Centrifugal Federalism

   Edited by Marleen Brans, Lieven De Winter, Wilfried Swenden

   Series: WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS

   For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium's politics were best known through the writings of Arend Lijphart, who considered it a model case of consociationalism. Over the past ten to fifteen years, the analysis of consociationalism has been...

   Published February 11th 2009 by Routledge