New directions in federalism studies

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Federalism has experienced a remarkable renaissance in recent decades – as an alternative way to accommodate ethnic differences; as a tool to combat remote, undemocratic and ineffective central governments; and lastly, as a means to promote economic performance in the developing world through decentralisation. This book seeks to bring different aspects and perspectives of federalism studies closer together, by providing an analytical framework which transcends the sub-fields and encourages contributors to look beyond the comfort zones of their own disciplinary approaches to the topic. The authors seek to achieve this aim by structuring the contributions around four dimensions federalism studies:   • the development and design of federal institutions; • federalism and democratic participation, representation and accountability; • federalism and the accommodation of territorially-based ethnic, cultural and linguistic differences; • federalism and public policy.   With a strong comparative framework, New Directions in Federalism Studies will be of interest to students and scholars of Federalism, Government, Regionalism, and Multi-level Governance. It will also offer insights of relevance to Comparative Politics, Public Policy, Public Administration, Nationalism, and West European Politics. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Other Authors

Jan Erk
Wilfried Swenden

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

xviii, 238 s. : il. ; 24 cm

Published

London : Routledge/ECPR, 2010

Series

Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science

Subjects

federalismus

decentralizace

srovnávací politologie

Evropa

Bibliography

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ISBN

978-0-203-86543-9
978-0-415-54844-1