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This compilation, The Making and Ending of Federalism, includes the main topics addressed by recognized experts on federalism at the Conference of the International Association of Federal Studies (IACFS) held in Innsbruck, Austria, on 28-30 October 2021. It combines both theoretical and practical approaches and contains remarkable reflections.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Part 1
Introductory Remarks
The Making and Ending of Federalism
Part 2
The Emergence of Federalism
1 Why the World Did Not Come Together The Failures of the 'Committee to Frame a World Constitution'
Eva Maria Belser and Salome Hunkeler
2 Economic and Fiscal Factors in the Development of Federal Constitutions Lessons from the History of the German Reich and the European Union
Gisela Färber
3 Aggregative and Devolutionary Federalism Revisited The Impact of the Founding on the Federal System
Karl Kössler
4 Federal Dynamics and Stability The Quest for the Most Optimal Structure of Political Systems
Patricia Popelier
5 Was the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederation a European Construction?
John Kincaid and J. Wesley Leckrone
Part 3
The Making and Ending of Federalism - Theory and Case Studies
6 The Constitutional Eschatology of Federalism
Anna Gamper
7 Municipalities and Public Policies in the Brazilian Federation
Gilberto M.A. Rodrigues, Klaus Frey and Vanessa Elias de Oliveira
Part 4
Country Reports
8 The Weight of History The Preservation of a Centralised Judiciary in the Spanish Decentralised State (and Its Consequences)
Jordi Jaria Manzano
9 The Making of Italian Regionalism Foundation, Evolution and Perspective through a Compact among the Constituent Units
Paolo Colasante
