Full Description
First Published in 1998. Federalism became highly fashionable among all kind of blue-printers, those who believed in the capacity of constitutional forms to solve all the fundamental issues of social life, as well as those who were on the look-out for new descriptions for rather old-fashioned political concepts just before World War II. This volume if a more thorough study of the problem s of Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe. Contribute to the study of these problems as an analysis of the problems of democratic devolution arising from variety in social and cultural outlook, and of the limits within which such variety might be integrated by federal organisation.
Contents
Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 The Historical Background; Chapter 2 The Forces of Centralisation and Decentralisation; Chapter 3 Some Theoretical Conceptions of Federalism; Part 2 Federalism in Modern Germany; Chapter 4 Nineteenth-Century German Democracy and Federalism; Chapter 5 Bismarck's Empire and the 1918 Revolution; Chapter 6 Struggle of Centralist and Federalist Forces in the Establishment and Operation of the Weimar Constitution; Chapter 7 The Working and the End of Weimar Federalism; Part 3 The Former Austrian Territories; Chapter 8 Attempts at Federation During the 1848-9 Revolution; Chapter 9 Later Attempts at Federalist Reconstruction in Austria-Hungary; Chapter 10 Austrian Republican Federalism: Its Social Basis and Constitutional Foundations; Chapter 11 Operation and Destruction of Austrian Democratic Federalism; Chapter 12 Autonomist and Federalist Tendencies in Czechoslovakia; Part 4 Federalism In The U.S.S.R.; Chapter 13 Development and Constitutional Organisation of Soviet Federalism; Chapter 14 Centralism and Federalism in the Practice of the Soviet Government; Part 5 International Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe; Chapter 15 Post-1919 Plans for a Danubian Federation; Chapter 16 Pan-European Propaganda and Hitler'S "New Order"; Chapter 17 Problems Of Post-War Planning; Part 6 Central and East European Experience and the Problem of Federalism; Chapter 18 Theoretical Conceptions of Federalism; Chapter 19 Federalism and Social Order; Chapter 20 Federalism and the Multi-National State; Chapter 21 Continental Experience and The Projects of International Federalism;
