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1. Multinational Federations

   Edited by Michael Burgess, John Pinder

   Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

   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...

   Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
2. Explaining Federalism

   State, society and congruence in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany and Switzerland

   By Jan Erk

   Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

   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...

   Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
3. Federal Democracies

   Edited by Michael Burgess, Alain-G. Gagnon

   Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

   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...

   Published February 17th 2010 by Routledge
4. The Case for Multinational Federalism

   Beyond the all-encompassing nation

   By Alain-G. Gagnon

   Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

   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...

   Published August 19th 2009 by Routledge
5. Mastering Globalization

   New Sub-States' Governance and Strategies

   Edited by Stéphane Paquin, Guy LaChappelle

   Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

   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...

   Published February 26th 2009 by Routledge
6. Multinational Federalism and Value Pluralism

   The Spanish Case

   By Ferran Requejo

   Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

   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...

   Published February 9th 2005 by Routledge
7. Regional Interests and Regional Actors

   Wales and Saxony as Modern Regions in Europe

   Edited by Jörg Mathias

   Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

   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,...

   Published February 4th 2004 by Routledge
8. New Borders for a Changing Europe

   Cross-Border Cooperation and Governance

   Edited by Liam O'Dowd, James Anderson, Thomas M. Wilson

   Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

   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....

   Published February 28th 2003 by Routledge
9. Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe

   Edited by Judy Batt, Kataryna Wolczuk

   Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

   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....

   Published July 29th 2002 by Routledge
10. Local Power, Territory and Institutions in European Metropolitan Regions

    In Search of Urban Gargantuas

    Edited by Bernard Jouve, Christian Lefevre

    Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

    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....

    Published May 30th 2002 by Routledge