Federal Type Solutions And European Integration

Author : C. Lloyd Brown-John
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015033976344

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Federal-type Solutions and European Integration by C. Lloyd Brown-John Pdf

This volume, based on papers delivered at a conference in Bruges, Belgium, explores the development of European federalism. The contributors also examine the political systems of other countries such as the U.S. and Canada in order to gain insight into European integration. Some of the topics covered in the volume include recent attitudes of the German Lander towards European integration; citizenship and European union; federalism and the environment; the language problem in European integration; and the politics and administration of federalism. Contributors: Wilifred Martens, Daniel Elazar, Alain Gagnon, Michael Burgess, John Kincaid, C. Lloyd Brown-John, Stephen Schechter, Bruce McDowell, Kieran St. Clair Bradley, Joachim Jens Hesse, Ronald Watts, Nicolas Schmitt, Cheryl Saunders, Frans Vanistendael, Marcelo Duarte, Jean Beaufays, Wolfgang Renzsch, Reinhard Rack, Audrey Brassloff, Gary Miller, Jacob Landau, Alexander Murphy, Maureen Covell, Rudolf Hrbek, Karel Rimanque, and Andre Alen.

Author : Charlie Jeffery,Roland Sturm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135234508

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Federalism, Unification and European Integration by Charlie Jeffery,Roland Sturm Pdf

This is an assessment of how an established, federal constitutional framework can adapt to meet the challenge posed by the achievement of German unity and the deepening of european Unity.

Author : Michael Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134736782

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Federalism and the European Union by Michael Burgess Pdf

A revisionist interpretation of the post-war evolution of European integration and the European Union (EU), this book reappraises and reassesses conventional explanations of European integration. It adopts a federalist approach which supplements state-based arguments with federal political ideas, influences and strategies. By exploring the philosophical and historical origins of federal ideas and tracing their influence throughout the whole of the EU's evolution, the book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly debate about the nature and development of the EU. The book looks at federal ideas stretching back to the sixteenth century and demonstrates their fundamental continuity to contemporary European integration. It situates these ideas in the broad context of post-war western Europe and underlines their practical relevance in the activities of Jean Monnet and Altiero Spinelli. Post-war empirical developments are explored from a federalist perspective, revealing an enduring persistence of federal ideas which have been either ignored or overlooked in conventional interpretations. The book challenges traditional conceptions of the post-war and contemporary evolution of the EU, to reassert and reinstate federalism in theory and practice at the very core of European integration.

Author : Bojan Kovacevic
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317139003

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Europe's Hidden Federalism by Bojan Kovacevic Pdf

The hidden federal features of the European Union help explain the challenges of legitimacy, democracy and freedom that face an unfinished political community. Ideas about federalism and the reality of existing federal states cannot be sharply divided in an analysis of the EU’s multilevel political order, but so far, both scholars and major decision makers have shown interest only in the normal functioning of federal systems: ignoring the dilemma of the federation’s legitimate authority has resulted in an existential crisis for the EU which has become ever more manifest over recent years. This book employs a combination of political philosophy and political science, of federal philosophic ideas and their traces in real federal institutions, in order to achieve the task of understanding the federal features of the EU governance system. The first part of the work focuses on building an appropriate theoretical framework to explain the new meanings attached to familiar notions of democracy, legitimacy and citizenship in the context of a political community like the EU. In the second part the federal features of the EU’s political system are examined in comparison to other current and historical federal perspectives like the US, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Germany. Through an analysis of the hidden federal aspects of the EU and the links between hidden federalism and the EU’s legitimacy crisis, this book reveals the patterns that should be avoided and gives us guidelines that should be followed if the EU is to become democratic and politically united without jeopardising the state character of its members.

Author : Markus W. Gehring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108487962

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Europe's Second Constitution by Markus W. Gehring Pdf

European constitutionalisation has met with scepticism - this book analyses the steps necessary to move to EU's 'Second Constitution'.

Author : Joachim Jens Hesse,Vincent Wright
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198279922

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Federalizing Europe? by Joachim Jens Hesse,Vincent Wright Pdf

The constitutional and institutional development of the European Union, and federalism in particular, are widely and intensively debated. The issue of federalism has proved to be divisive and misunderstood. This book provides a critical reappraisal of the political, economic, and socio-cultural potential of current federal political-institutional arrangements. It includes both an analysis of their necessary preconditions as well as an evaluation of their advantages and disadvantages compared with other forms of state organization. The authors examine the issue at the level of the Union, the member states, and the states of Central and Eastern Europe, reflecting the increasing interdependence and interplay of these three levels: nation states in all parts of Europe influencing one another and the Union, and being influenced by it. The book concludes with an overall assessment of the federalizing processes at work in Europe, both at the Union and the nation state level, and points out the problems, paradoxes, and likely outcomes of these processes.

Author : Leslie Friedman Goldstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801875687

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Constituting Federal Sovereignty by Leslie Friedman Goldstein Pdf

Addresses why, when, and how sovereign states give up some of their sovereignity to form a larger union Starting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F. Goldstein examines the development of the European Union by blending comparative and historical institutionalist approaches. She argues that the most useful framework for understanding the kinds of "supra-state" formations that are increasingly apparent in the beginning of the third millennium is comparative analysis of the formative epochs of federations of the past that formed voluntarily from previously independent states. In Constituting Federal Sovereignty: The European Union in Comparative Context Goldstein identifies three significant predecessors to today's European Union: the Dutch Union of the 17th century, the United States of America from the 1787 Constitution to the Civil War, and the first half-century of the modern Swiss federation, beginning in 1848. She examines the processes by which federalization took place, what made for its success, and what contributed to its problems. She explains why resistance to federal authority, although similar in kind, varied significantly in degree in the cases examined. And she explores the crucial roles played by such factors as sovereignty-honoring elements within the institutional structure of the federation, the circumstances of its formation (revolt against distant empire versus aftermath of war among member states), and notably, the internal culture of respect for the rule of law in the member states.

Author : Tania Raffass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136296437

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The Soviet Union - Federation or Empire? by Tania Raffass Pdf

The Soviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation, but really an empire, liable to break up when individual federal units, which were allegedly really subordinate colonial units, sought independence. This book questions this interpretation, revisiting the theory of federation, and discussing actual examples of federations such as the United States, arguing that many federal unions, including the United States, are really centralised polities. It also discusses the nature of empires, nations and how they relate to nation states and empires, and the right of secession, highlighting the importance of the fact that this was written in to the Soviet constitution. It examines the attitude of successive Soviet leaders towards nationalities, and the changing attitudes of nationalists towards the Soviet Union. Overall, it demonstrates that the Soviet attitude to nationalities and federal units was complicated, wrestling, in a similar way to many other states, with difficult questions of how ethno-cultural justice can best be delivered in a political unit which is bigger than the national state.

Author : Michael Burgess
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Michael Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134219483

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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 : European Commission for Democracy through Law,Council of Europe,Università di Bologna,Johns Hopkins University
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287141304

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Federal and Regional States in the Perspective of European Integration by European Commission for Democracy through Law,Council of Europe,Università di Bologna,Johns Hopkins University Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Odile Jacob
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782738191205

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jan Erk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134082575

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Explaining Federalism by Jan Erk Pdf

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 social structure. This change could be in the centralist direction reflecting ethno-linguistic homogeneity, or in decentralist terms corresponding to ethno-linguistic heterogeneity. In this context, the volume: fills a gap in the comparative federalism literature by analyzing the patterns of change and continuity in five federal systems of the industrial west, this is done by an in-depth empirical examination of the case studies through a single framework of analysis illustrates the shortcomings of new-institutionalist approaches in explaining change, highlighting the usefulness of society-based approaches in studying change and continuity in comparative politics. Explaining Federalism will be of interest to students and scholars of federalism, comparative government, comparative institutional analysis and comparative public policy.

Author : Paul Craig,Gráinne de Búrca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199592975

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The Evolution of EU Law by Paul Craig,Gráinne de Búrca Pdf

Previous edition, 1st, published in 1999.

Author : Liesbet Hooghe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780585381664

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Multi-Level Governance and European Integration by Liesbet Hooghe Pdf

European politics has been reshaped in recent decades by a dual process of centralization and decentralization. At the same time that authority in many policy areas has shifted to the suprantional level of the European Union, so national governments have given subnational regions within countries more say over the lives of their citizens. At the forefront of scholars who characterize this dual process as Omulti-level governance,OLiesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks argue that its emergence in the second half of the twentieth century is a watershed in the political development of Europe. Hooghe and Marks explain why multi-level governance has taken place and how it shapes conflict in national and European political arenas. Drawing on a rich body of original research, the book is at the same time written in a clear and accessible style for undergraduates and non-experts.