Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Jacques Delors and Joseph Nye
  • Introduction : the federal vision, levels of governance, and legitimacy / Robert Howse and Kalypso Nicolaidis
  • I. Articulating the federal vision. The United States and the European Union : models for their epochs / Daniel J. Elazar
  • Federalism without constitutionalism : Europe's Sonderweg / J.H.H. Weiler
  • II. Levels of governance in the United States and the European Union : facts and diagnosis. Centralization and its discontents : the rhythms of federalism in the United States and the European Union / John D. Donahue and Mark A. Pollack
  • Blueprints for change : devolution and subsidiarity in the United States and the European Union / David Lazer and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger
  • Devolution in the United States : rhetoric and reality / John Kincaid
  • Federalism in the European Union : rhetoric and reality / Andrew Moravcsik
  • III. Legal and regulatory instruments of federal governance. The role of law in the functioning of federal systems / George A. Bermann
  • Comparative federalism and the issue of commandeering / Daniel Halberstam
  • Regulatory legitimacy in the United States and the European Union / Giandomenico Majone
  • IV. Federalism, legitimacy, and governance : models for understanding. Securing subsidiarity : the institutional design of federalism in the United States and Europe / Cary Coglianese and Kalypso Nicolaidis
  • Federal governance in the United States and the European Union : a policy network perspective / John Peterson and Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr.
  • Federalism and state governance in the European Union and the United States : an institutional perspective / Vivien Schmidt
  • Democratic legitimacy under conditions of regulatory competition : why Europe differs from the United States / Fritz W. Scharpf
  • V. Federalism, legitimacy, and identity. Citizenship and federations : some preliminary reflections / Sujit Choudhry
  • The constitutions of institutions / Elizabeth Meehan
  • Beyond devolution : from subsidiarily to mutuality / Marc Landy and Steven M. Teles
  • European citizenship : the relevance of the American model / Denis Lacorne
  • Conclusion : the federal vision beyond the federal state / Kalypso Nicolaidis
  • Appendix : Basic principles for the allocation of competence in the United States and the European Union / George A. Bermann and Kalypso Nicolaidis.