Routledge Handbook of Regionalism & Federalism

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
PART I Theoretical and comparative approaches to federalism and regionalism
	1 Reconfiguring the nation-state: hybridity vs. uniformity
	2 Typologies of federalism
	3 Plurinational federalism and political theory
	4 The penumbra of federalism: a conceptual reappraisal of federalism, federation, confederation and federal political systems
	5 Territorial strategies for managing plurinational states
	6 Federalism, regionalism and the dynamics of party politics
	7 Fiscal federalism and the political economy of territorial finance
	8 Federalism and public policy: do federalism, regionalism and hybridity make any difference? Evidence from environmental policy
	9 The ‘new regionalism’ and the politics of the regional question
	10 Economic regionalism in federal and hybrid systems of government
PART II Case studies by region: North America
	11 The United States of America: from dualistic simplicity to centralized complexity
	12 Canada: Federal adaptation and the limits of hybridity
	13 Mexico: from centralized authoritarianism to disarticulated democracy?
	Case studies by region: Europe
		14 The Belgian Federation: a labyrinth state
		15 Germany: federalism under unitary pressure
		17 Switzerland: Europe’s first federation
		18 Russia: Involuted federalism and segmented regionalism
		19 Spain: the autonomic state
		20 Italy: between the hybrid state and Europe’s federalizing process
		21 Sweden: federalism in the land of centrally guided regionalization
		22 Devolution in the United Kingdom
		23 Poland: creeping regionalization of the unitary state
		24 France: from the ‘one and indivisible republic’ to the decentralized unitary state
	Case studies by region: Asia
		25 India: a hybrid federal-unitary state?
		26 Assessing hybridity in the People’s Republic of China: the impact of post-Mao decentralization
	Case studies by region: Asia-Pacific
		27 Australia: an ‘integrated’ federation?
		28 Indonesia: arbitrary polity, unitary state
	Case studies by region: Africa
		29 Nigeria: a centralizing federation
		30 Federalism in Ethiopia: hybridity in ambiguity?
		31 South Africa: the reluctant hybrid federal state
	Case studies by region: Latin America
		32 Brazil: from ‘isolated’ federalism to hybridity
		33 Tensions between centralization and decentralization in the Argentine federation
		34 The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: an empty constitutional federation?
	Case studies by region: Middle East
		35 Lebanon: the hybridity of a confessional state
PART III Failed federations
	36 ‘Federalizing the federation’: the failure of the Yugoslav experiment
	37 Czechoslovakia: a peaceful disintegration
PART IV Transnationalism regionalism
	38 Federalism and the European Union
	39 The North American Free Trade Agreement: the limits of integration
	40 African Union: from practical federalism to fantasy union
Index