Routledge Handbook of Regionalism & Federalism

ISBN-13: 9780415566216 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 624 str.

John Loughlin

Opis

Federalism is a system of government in which central and regional authorities are linked in an interdependent political relationship in which powers and functions are distributed with the aim of maintaining a substantial degree of autonomy and integrity in the regional units. Federalism is a key organising principle in many countries including the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia, India, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium as well as the European Union.

Regionalism is closely linked to federalism and refers both to the advocacy and institutional representation of the interests of a particular sub-national region and, in transnational terms, to the creation and implementation of institutions which express a common sense of identity and purpose within a geographical region. Examples of the former would include devolution in the UK, and autonomous regions within Spain, Italy, Poland and Romania while examples of transnational regionalism include the European Union, NAFTA, Mercosur, ASEAN and the African Union.

Traditional political science classified states as either federal or unitary with a clear distinction between each category. Over the past thirty years or so, however, this basic distinction has become increasingly inadequate to capture the complexity of evolving state forms. This complexity is largely a product of wider processes of change taking place in the economic, social, political and cultural spheres such as globalization, new forms of economic production and exchange and developments within administrative reform such as New Public Management and deregulation. In Europe, the accelerating processes of European integration and the partial strengthening of the federal aspects of the EU since the 1980s have also created a new situation of complexity for the EU s member states.

Research by scholars in the field of federalism and regionalism have shown the many different forms of federalism and regionalism. The complexity of these forms means that it has been necessary to develop new typologies which also demonstrate that there is now a considerable overlap between both federal and unitary states.

This Handbook draws together the main theoretical themes of this current research and provides a comprehensive overview of regionalism and federalism in contemporary global politics. It covers evolving forms of federalism and regionalism in all parts of the world and features a comprehensive range of case studies by leading international scholars.

Spis treści

Part 1: Theoretical and Comparative Approaches to Federalism and Regionalism  1. Reconfiguring the State: Hybridity vs. Uniformity, John Loughlin  2. Typologies of Federalism, Ronald L. Watts  3. Plurinational Federalism and Political Theory, Ferran Requejo  4. The penumbra of federalism: a conceptual reappraisal of federalism, federation, confederation and federal political system, Michael Burgess  5. Territorial Strategies for Managing Plurinational States, Wilfried Swenden  6. Federalism, Regionalism and the Dynamics of Party Politics, Eve Hepburn and Klaus Detterbeck  7. Fiscal Federalism and the Political Economy of Territorial Finance, Anwar Shah  8. Federalism and Public Policy: Do Federalism, Regionalism and Hybridity make any difference? – Evidence from Environmental Policy, Sonja Wälti  9. The "New Regionalism" and the Politics of the Regional Question, John Agnew  10. Economic Regionalism in Federal and Hybrid Systems of Government, Pieter van Houten  Part 2: Case Studies by Region  North America  11. The United States of America: From Dualistic Simplicity to Centralized Complexity, John Kincaid  12. Canada: Federal Adaptation and the Limits of Hybridity, James Bickerton and Alain G. Gagnon  13. Mexico: From Centralized Authoritarianism to Disarticulated Democracy? Steven T. Wuhs  Europe  14. The Belgian Federation: A Labyrinth State, Kris Deschouwer  15. Germany: Federalism under Unitary Pressure, Arthur Benz and Jörg Broschek  16. Austria: A Federal, a Decentralized Unitary or a ‘Hybrid’ State? Relations between the Welfare State and the Federal State after 1945, Franz Fallend  17. Switzerland: Europe’s first federation, Paolo Dardanelli  18. Russia: Involuted Federalism and segmented Regionalism, Richard Sakwa  19. Spain: the Autonomic State, Francesc Morata  20 Italy: Between the Hybrid State and Europe’s Federalizing Process, Beniamino Caravita  21. Sweden; Federalism in the land of centrally guided regionalization, Niklas Eklund.  22. Devolution in the United Kingdom, Charlie Jeffery  23. Poland, Pawel Swianiewicz, Warsaw University  24. France: from the ‘One and Indivisible Republic’ to the Decentralized Unitary State, John Loughlin  Asia  25. India: A Hybrid Federal-Unitary State? Rekha Saxena  26. Assessing hybridity in the People’s Republic of China: The impact of post-Mao decentralization, Susan Henders  Asia-Pacific  27. Australia: an ‘integrated’ federation?, Cheryl Saunders  28. Indonesia: Arbitrary polity, unitary state, Damien Kingsbury  Africa  29. Nigeria: a Centralizing Federation, Rotimi Suberu  30. Federalism in Ethiopia: Hybridity in Ambiguity? Sarah Vaughan  31. South Africa - the reluctant hybrid federal state, Nico Steytler  Latin America  32. Brazil: from ‘Isolated’ Federalism to Hybridity, Celina Souza  33. Tensions between Centralization and Decentralization in the Argentine Federation, Lucas González  34. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: An Empty Constitutional Federation?, Christi Ranguel Ferrero  Middle East 35. Lebanon: the Hybridity of a Confessional State, Michael Kerr and Amal Hamdan  Part 3: Failed Federations  36. ‘Federalising the Federation’: The Failure of the Yugoslav Experiment, Florian Bieber  37. Czechoslovakia: A Peaceful Disintegration, Michal Ilner Part 4: Transnationalism Regionalism  38. Federalism and the European Union, Simona Piattoni  39. The North American Free Trade Agreement: The Limits of Integration, Douglas M. Brown  40. African Union: From Practical Federalism to Fantasy Union, Thomas Kwasi Tieku