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Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy. As a result of the division or sharing of powers between levels of government, there remains considerable uncertainty about how rules or patterns of politics between the executive and legislative branches interact. Combining theoretical analyses and selected case studies, Federal Democracies at Work contributes to our understanding of the complex relations between federalism and democracy.
 Throughout the volume, contributing authors elaborate and apply an innovative analytical framework to provide greater clarity on the complex relations between federalism and democracy. As a whole, the volume explores how different institutional configurations of federal democracies alleviate or intensify inherent tensions; how actors grapple and cope with the challenge of these complexities; and how structures evolve as a result of rising conflicts and institutional reforms or adjustments. In doing so, Federal Democracies at Work advances research on comparative federalism and works toward a better understanding of how these compound systems work.
Contents
Contributors 
 1. Introduction 
Arthur Benz and Jared Sonnicksen
 
2. Federalism as a Yardstick for Democracy 
Thomas O. Hueglin 
 3. Linking Federalism and Democracy. An Analytical Framework 
Arthur Benz 
 4. Out of Balance: Executive Dominance in Federal Settings 
John Erik Fossum and David Laycock
 
5. Federalism and Democracy in the United States 
Timothy Conlan 
 6. Federalism and Direct Democracy in Switzerland: Competing or Complementary? 
Sean Mueller 
 7. Germany: How Federalism has shaped Consensus Democracy 
Sabine Kropp 
 8. Between Co-evolution and Intercurrence: How Democracy has shaped Federalism in Canada 
Jörg Broschek 
 9. Party Federalism in Australia 
Andrew Banfield and Anthony Sayers
 
10. Belgium: the Democratic State of the Federation 
Petra Meier and Peter Bursens 
 11. Democracy and Federalism in Spain: Interactions, Tensions and Compatibilities 
César Colino 
 12. Democracy and Federalism in India. Mutually Reinforcing? 
Wilfried Swenden and Katharine Adeney 
 13. Comparing Patterns of Federal Democracy 
Arthur Benz and Jared Sonnicksen
 
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