Comparing Federal Systems

Watts, Ronald L.

ISBN 10: 0889118353 / ISBN 13: 9780889118355

Editore: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 1999

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Titolo: Comparing Federal Systems

Casa editrice: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations

Data di pubblicazione: 1999

Legatura: Softcover

Condizione: Fine

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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