Comparing Federal Systems (Queen's Policy Studies Series)

Watts, Ronald L

Institute of Intergovernmental Relations（2008/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781553391883
• DDC分類 321.02

Full Description

Countries studied include the United States, Switzerland, Australia, Austria, and Germany as examples of developed industrial societies; India and Malaysia as examples of multilingual and multicultural federations; Belgium and Spain as examples of emerging federal systems that illustrate bicommunal and asymmetrical approaches; and Czechoslovakia and Pakistan as examples of bicommunal federations that have failed. Watts compares the interaction of social diversity and political institutions, distribution of powers and finances, processes contributing to flexibility or rigidity in adjustment, extent of internal symmetry or asymmetry, degree of centralization and decentralization, character of representation in federal institutions, role of constitutions and courts, provisions for constitutional rights and secession, and pathology in federations.

Contents

1. INTRODUCTION; 2. OVERVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FEDERATIONS; 3. THE FORMATION OF FEDERATIONS; 4. THE CONSTITUENT UNITS; 5. THE DISTRIBUTION OF AUTHORITY IN FEDERATIONS; 6. THE DISTRIBUTION OF FINANCES; 7. INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS; 8. SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY IN FEDERATIONS; 9. MULTILEVEL FEDERAL SYSTEMS; 10. THE REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS; 11. CONSTITUTIONAL SUPREMACY IN FEDERATIONS; 12. DEGREES OF DECENTRALIZATION AND NON-CENTRALIZATION IN FEDERATIONS; 13. THE PATHOLOGY OF FEDERATIONS; 14. CONCLUSIONS