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Federalism, Plurinationality and Democratic Constitutionalism Theory and Cases

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This book provides a theoretical and comparative analysis of federalism and federations in plurinational democracies, examining how states with distinct peoples and communities coexist (or not). Through a theoretical approach to democracy and federalism, and interdisciplinary analysis of plurinationality in state organization, including case studies of the UK, Russia, Canada, Belgium, India,... Read more

1. Introduction: Democracy and Federalism in Plurinational Societies Ferran Requejo and Miquel Caminal Part 1 2. Territorial Pluralism: Its Forms, Flaws and Virtues John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary 3. The Unfreedom of the Moderns in the Post-9/11 Age of Constitutionalism and Imperialism Michael Simpson and James Tully 4. The Moral Foundations of Asymmetrical Federalism: Normative Considerations Alain Gagnon and Guy Laforest 5. The Lack of National Pluralism in Federal Theory and Federations: Plurinational Federalism in a Comparative and Value Pluralist Approach Ferran Requejo Part 2 6. Canada – A Territorial or a Multinational Federation? Philip Resnick 7. Belgian Federalism: Means to an End? Wilfried Swenden 8. India: Unity in Diversity through an Evolving Federalism George Mathew 9. The United Kingdom as a Multinational State Stephen Tierney 10. Multi-Lingual but Mono-National Exploring and Explaining Switzerland’s Exceptionalism Paolo Dardanelli 11. The Spanish "Estado de las Autonomías": Between Nationalist Resistance and Federal Horizon Miquel Caminal