Comparing Federal Systems: Second Edition: Volume 50 - Brossura

Watts, Ronald L.; Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) Institute Of Intergovernmental Rel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0889118353 ISBN 13: 9780889118355

Casa editrice: Inst of Intergovermental, 1999

Riassunto

Countries studied include the United States, Switzerland, Australia, Austria, and Germany as examples of developed industrial societies; India and Malaysia as examples of multilingual and multicultural federations; Belgium and Spain as examples of emerging federal systems that illustrate bicommunal and asymmetrical approaches; and Czechoslovakia and Pakistan as examples of bicommunal federations that have failed. Watts compares the interaction of social diversity and political institutions, distribution of powers and finances, processes contributing to flexibility or rigidity in adjustment, extent of internal symmetry or asymmetry, degree of centralization and decentralization, character of representation in federal institutions, role of constitutions and courts, provisions for constitutional rights and secession, and pathology in federations.

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Ronald L. Watts is principal emeritus and professor emeritus, political studies, and fellow and former director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's University, and fellow of the international Forum of Federations. From 1991 to 1998

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Inst of Intergovermental
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0889118353
• ISBN 13: 9780889118355
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 138
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile