Practising Self-Government: A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions

ISBN-13: 9781316619384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 516 str.

Yash Ghai; Sophia Woodman

Opis

An examination of how the constitutional frameworks for autonomies around the world really work.

Spis treści

Introduction: nature and origins of autonomy Yash Ghai; 1. Seeking autonomy in a decentralised federation: the case of Québec Richard Simeon and Luc Turgeon; 2. Property and happiness through autonomy: the self-government of the Åland Islands in Finland Markku Suksi; 3. Puerto Rico: autonomy or colonial subordination? Efrén Rivera-Ramos; 4. Foundations and institutions of South-Tyrol's autonomy in Italy Oskar Peterlini; 5. Kashmir: the vanishing autonomy Jill Cottrell; 6. Autonomies of scale: precarious self-government on Norfolk Island Helen Irving; 7. The autonomy of Catalonia: the unending search for a place within pluralist Spain Carlos Flores Juberías; 8. Zanzibar in Tanzania: from sovereign to autonomy? Yash Ghai; 9. Defective democracy in a failed state? Bridging constitutional design, politics and ethnic division in Bosnia-Herzegovina Josef Marko; 10. Hong Kong's autonomy: dialects of powers and institutions Yash Ghai; 11. The autonomy of devolved Scotland Chris Himsworth; 12. Macau: transformation of a historic autonomy Paulo Cardinal; 13. Autonomy and conflict resolution in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea Anthony J. Regan; 14. Comparative perspectives on institutional frameworks for autonomy Sophia Woodman and Yash Ghai.