Federal Theory

Author : Michael Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134219490

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Comparative Federalism by Michael Burgess Pdf

A new examination of contemporary federalism and federation, which delivers a detailed theoretical study underpinned by fresh case studies. It is grounded in a clear distinction between 'federations', particular kinds of states, and 'federalism', the thinking that drives and promotes them. It also details the origins, formation, evolution and operations of federal political interests, through an authoritative series of chapters that: analyze the conceptual bases of federalism and federation through the evolution of the intellectual debate on federalism; the American Federal experience; the origins of federal states; and the relationship between state-building and national integration explore comparative federalism and federation by looking at five main pathways into comparative analysis with empirical studies on the US, Canada, Australia, India, Malaysia, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the EU explore the pathology of federations, looking at failures and successes, the impact of globalization. The final chapter also presents a definitive assessment of federal theory. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of federalism, devolution, comparative politics and government.

Author : Patricia Popelier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000359220

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Dynamic Federalism by Patricia Popelier Pdf

This book offers a new theory of federalism. The work critically discusses traditional federal theories and builds on theories that focus on the dynamics of federalism. It offers a definition of federalism and federal organizations that encompasses both new and old types of multi-tiered system. Unlike traditional federal theory, it is well-suited to research both multinational and mononational systems. It also takes into account the complexity of these systems, with bodies of governance at the local, regional, national, and supranational level. The book is divided into three parts: the first part outlines the contours of dynamic federalism, based on a critical overview of traditional federal theory; the second part develops comprehensive indexes to measure autonomy and cohesion of multi-tiered systems; and the third part focuses on the dynamics of federal organizations, with a special focus on institutional hubs for change. Dynamic Federalism will be an essential resource for legal, social, economic, and political scholars interested in federalism, regionalism, and de/centralization.

Author : Signe Rehling Larsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198859260

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The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union by Signe Rehling Larsen Pdf

This book departs from the 'statist' imagination by suggesting the EU is a federal union of states, or a federation. Dedicated to the constitutional theory of federalism, this book gives the strengths and weaknesses of a federation as a political form, its histories, and current perils for the EU.

Author : Michael Burgess
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191611599

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In Search of the Federal Spirit by Michael Burgess Pdf

In Search of the Federal Spirit examines federal theory in the context of the new federal models that have sprung into existence since the end of the Cold War. It utilises the federal spirit as a conceptual lens through which to explore the revival of federalism in the post-Cold War era - especially in the 1990s - and it seeks to place the emergence of these new models in the theoretical context of federal state formation. By examining the approaches of five major contributors to the nature and meaning of federalism - Kenneth Wheare, William Livingston, William Riker, Carl Friedrich, and Daniel Elazar - the book identifies several different expressions of the federal spirit that together constitute its basic political values and principles rooted in liberal democracy. The book explains how and why the federal spirit can survive and prosper only in conditions of liberal democracy which allow these federal values and principles to be freely expressed. In this way the book will connect the five distinctive approaches to understanding federalism and their peculiar interpretation of the federal spirit to the emergence of the new models. This chain of reasoning leads us to look not only at federal state formation based upon formal federal constitutions but also to include the evolution of federal political systems that are an integral part of the post-Cold War revival of federalism. The new federal models are the Russian Federation, Belgium, the European Union, Ethiopia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Iraq while Spain, Italy, South Africa, Argentina, and the United Kingdom have each fashioned their own form of federal system in practice. The logic of the argument based upon the federal spirit leads not only to a revisionist framework of analysis to explain the key conditions of future federal state formation but it also prompts a major reconsideration of the conventional conceptual framework of analysis in federalism and the proposal of a new classification of "federal democracies". Confirmation of the firm links between federalism and liberal democracy is further underlined by a detailed examination of the conceptual relationships between civil society, political culture, and liberal democratic constitutionalism. The federal spirit is shown to be multidimensional in its properties and the book concludes with three cases studies of Ethiopia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq that establish federalism as essentially a way of thinking - a mindset - about creating political stability in deeply divided societies by creating federations.

Author : Sobei Mogi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000706444

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The Problem of Federalism by Sobei Mogi Pdf

First published in 1931. The Problem of Federalism provides a comprehensive and critical survey of the historical development and practical application of the idea of federalism as a form of state organisation. The author explores federal ideas from the eighteenth- up until the early twentieth-century. This extensive study will be useful to students of politics and philosophy.

Author : Alain-G. Gagnon,Soeren Keil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317004950

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Understanding Federalism and Federation by Alain-G. Gagnon,Soeren Keil Pdf

Based on a variety of contemporary debates on federal theory Understanding Federalism and Federation honours Michael Burgess’ contribution to the study of these topics through a selection of approaches, theories, debates and interpretations. Gathering contributors from diverse subfields to synthesize current debates it offers a snapshot of the immense range of current research on federalism and federation. Leading authors debate key issues such as American federalism, Canada and the role of Quebec, the latest insights into comparative federalism and federation, the European Union as a federal project and the analysis of constitutional courts in federal systems. Different theoretical and empirical fields and perspectives are brought together, synthesizing major findings and addressing emerging issues and these topics are analysed through multiple lenses to provide new insights, original approaches and much-needed theoretical and empirical data on federalism and federation.

Author : Erika Arban
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 9780192843272

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Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory by Erika Arban Pdf

The city as an independent subject of theorisation and investigation is an underexamined area of constitutional law. Although in recent years scholars have started to explore the legal dimension and place of urban areas, the study of cities as constitutional subjects remains very new, with a solid theoretical foundation yet to be established. Against this backdrop of general under-theorisation of cities in constitutional law and federalism, Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory seeks to offer a fresh theoretical account of cities as federalism subjects, exploring the increased importance they have acquired from political, economic, socio-cultural, and demographic perspectives. This volume directly addresses the relationship between cities, federalism, and localism (or subsidiarity), and responds to concerns about the scarcity of innovative theoretical discussion on the topic, while at the same time redefining accepted concepts like subsidiarity. Bringing together theoretical reflections on the city from established scholars, this edited collection significantly enriches the field of federal constitutional theory.

Author : Stephen Tierney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192529565

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The Federal Contract by Stephen Tierney Pdf

Federalism is a very familiar form of government. It characterises the first modern constitution-that of the United States-and has been deployed by constitution-makers to manage large and internally diverse polities at various key stages in the history of the modern state. Despite its pervasiveness in practice, this book argues that federalism has been strangely neglected by constitutional theory. It has tended either to be subsumed within one default account of modern constitutionalism, or it has been treated as an exotic outlier - a sui generis model of the state, rather than a form of constitutional ordering for the state. This neglect is both unsatisfactory in conceptual terms and problematic for constitutional practitioners, obscuring as it does the core meaning, purpose and applicability of federalism as a specific model of constitutionalism with which to organise territorially pluralised and demotically complex states. In fact, the federal contract represents a highly distinctive order of rule which in turn requires a particular, 'territorialised' approach to many of the fundamental concepts with which constitutionalists and political actors operate: constituent power, the nature of sovereignty, subjecthood and citizenship, the relationship between institutions and constitutional authority, patterns of constitutional change and, ultimately, the legitimacy link between constitutionalism and democracy. In rethinking the idea and practice of federalism, this book adopts a root and branch recalibration of the federal contract. It does so by analysing federalism through the conceptual categories that characterise the nature of modern constitutionalism: foundations, authority, subjecthood, purpose, design and dynamics. This approach seeks to explain and in so doing revitalise federalism as a discrete, capacious and adaptable concept of rule that can be deployed imaginatively to facilitate the deep territorial variety that characterises so many states in the 21st century.

Author : Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Confederation of states
ISBN : UVA:X006040076

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Federalism by Daniel Judah Elazar Pdf

Author : Mikhail Filippov,Peter C. Ordeshook,Olga Shvetsova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521016487

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Designing Federalism by Mikhail Filippov,Peter C. Ordeshook,Olga Shvetsova Pdf

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Author : Dimitrios Karmis,Wayne Norman
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0312295812

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Theories of Federalism: A Reader by Dimitrios Karmis,Wayne Norman Pdf

This reader brings together the most significant writings on federalism from the seventeenth century to the present. Federalist theories have received short shrift in most texts and university courses on the history of political thought. We tend to read this history, from Hobbes to Rawls, as if the greatest political thinkers were concerned exclusively with the unitary nation-state. Yet running parallel to this tradition is another concerned with the best ways for multiple political communities to share the same political space in federative arrangements. Many of the most famous political thinkers--including Rousseau, Kant, and J.S. Mill--have participated in both traditions, although until now their federalist writings have been less-well-known and harder to find.

Author : Rufus S. Davis
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520365070

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The Federal Principle by Rufus S. Davis Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Author : Carl Joachim Friedrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015003465955

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Trends of Federalism in Theory and Practice by Carl Joachim Friedrich Pdf

Author : Patricia Popelier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 1003128769

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Dynamic Federalism by Patricia Popelier Pdf

"This book offers a new theory of federalism. The work critically discusses traditional federal theories and builds on theories that focus on the dynamics of federalism. The book offers a definition of federalism and federal organizations that encompass both new and old types of multi-tiered system. Unlike traditional federal theory, it is well-suited to research both multinational and mono-national systems. Also, it takes into account the complexity of these systems, with bodies of governance at the local, regional, national and supranational level. The book is divided in three parts. A first part outlines the contours of dynamic federalism, based on a critical overview of traditional federal theory. The second part develops comprehensive indexes to measure autonomy and cohesion of multi-tiered systems. The third part focuses on the dynamics of federal organizations, with a special focus on institutional hubs for change"--

Author : PROF SEAN. MUELLER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198882149

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Shared Rule in Federal Theory and Practice by PROF SEAN. MUELLER Pdf

Mueller provides a new, in-depth treatment of shared rule and its conceptual evolution defining three different meanings commonly ascribed to it: shared rule as horizontal cooperation, centralization, or bottom-up influence seeking.