Defensive Federalism: Protecting Territorial Minorities from the Tyranny of the Majority

ISBN-13: 9781032281964 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Ferran Requejo; Marc Sanjaume-Calvet

Opis

Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies, exploring the concept of defensive federalism as a protection of self-government against the "tyranny of the majority".

Spis treści

1. Defensive Federalism: Tackling the Two Faces of the Territorial Tyranny of the Majority. A Revised Federal Institutional Design, 2. Consociational Executives: Power-Sharing Governments Between Inclusion and Functionality?, 3. Exclusive Powers and Self-Governed Entities: A Tool for Defensive Federalism?, 4. The Limits of Self Rule without Shared Rule, 5. Constitutional Asymmetries as an (In)effective Counterbalancing Tool in Protecting Territorial Self-Government?, 6. Political Asymmetries: ‘Opting In and Opting Out’ Decision-Making Procedures in Canada, 7. Agreeing to Disagree: Federal Veto Powers in Switzerland, 8. The Role of Constitutional Judges in Protecting Territorial Self-Government, 9. The Defensiveness of Nation-States: Preventing Majority Domination in the European Union, 10. Federal Chiaroscuros: Concluding Remarks