1st Edition
Cooperative Federalism in South Asia and Europe Contemporary Issues and Trends
This book explores the challenges, opportunities, and trends impacting the working of federations in South Asia and Europe. It deliberates on the changing socio-economic realities, challenges facing the existing structures of governance, degrees of consociationalism, and the growing aspirations of people in South Asia and Europe.
Through case studies from Greece, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, France, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan, and India, the volume focuses on critical issues relating to cooperative federalism – its complexities, institutional dilemmas, and trends in South Asia and Europe. It discusses a variety of themes relevant to Cooperative Federalism including federal-state relations; cooperative governance; constitution; multiculturalism, fiscal relations, democratization, devolution of powers, consociationalism, and global citizenship in South Asia and Europe. The book further emphasizes the need to strike a balance between the federal government and the constituent units in these two regions.
Topical and lucid, this book will be of interest to teachers, scholars, and researchers of political science, comparative government and politics, federalism, South Asian politics, European politics, governance studies, and political studies.
Introduction
MJ Vinod, Stefy V Joseph, Joseph Chacko Chennatuserry, Dimitris N. Chryssochoou
PART I – COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
1. European ‘syspondia’: Theorizing a Late-Modern Political Aggregate
Dimitris N. Chryssochoou
2. Cooperative Federalism in the United States Through a Conceptual Lens
John Kincaid
3. Federalism and Democracy: The Need for a Differentiated Approach
Patricia Popelier
PART II – COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM IN INDIA
4. Fortunes of Federating Units in India
Krishna K. Tummala
5.Civil Society and Cooperative Federalism in India: The Need for a Conceptual Enquiry
G. Gopa Kumar
6. Emerging Trends in Indian Federalism: Collaboration, Competition and Coordination
Sandeep Shastri and Katyayani Singh
7. The Federal Dynamics of Indian Foreign Policy: Issues, Concerns and Trends
MJ Vinod, Lakshmi Karlekar and Joseph Chacko Chennatuserry
PART III – COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM IN EUROPE
8. COVID-19 and its Impacts on Cooperative Federalism in Austria
Peter Bussjäger and Mathias Eller
9. The Political Economy of Cooperative Federalism and the Implementation of Cooperative Federalism in Germany
Roland Sturm
10. Federalism and Power-Sharing as Modes of Diversity Management in Europe
Soeren Keil
PART IV – COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM IN SOUTH ASIA
11. Executive Absolutism and Decentralized Governance: A Study of the Sri Lankan Provincial Council System
Upul Abeyrathne and Sumudu Walakuluge
12. Cooperative Federalism in Nepal: Practice and Prospects
Thaneshwar Bhusal
13. Cooperative Federalism in a Multinational Country: Examining the Case of Pakistan
Stefy V Joseph and Jairam R Prabhu
Biography
MJ Vinod is Professor in the Department of International Studies, Political Science and History in CHRIST (deemed-to-be) University, Bangalore, India.
Stefy V Joseph is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies, Political Science and History at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India.
Joseph Chacko Chennatuserry is the Vice Chancellor of CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bangalore, India and Professor of History in the Department of International Studies, Political Science and History.
Dimitris N. Chryssochoou is Professor of Theory and Institutions of European Integration in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
