Federal Democracies.
Examines the evolution of relationship between federalism and democracy and features case studies on USA, Russia, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Canada and the European Union.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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Colección: | Routledge series in regional and federal studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: Federalism and democracy; Part I: Historical perspectives; 2 Democracy and federation in the Federalist Papers; 3 "Togetherness" in multinational federal democracies: Tocqueville, Proudhon and the theoretical gap in the modern federal tradition; 4 John C. Calhoun: Federalism, constitutionalism, and democracy; 5 Variations on a theme: James Bryce, federalism and democracy from the Holy Roman Empire and the American Commonwealth to the British Empire; Part II: Case studies.
- 6 Democracy versus federalism in the United States of America7 Federal democracy in Switzerland; 8 Federal democracy in plural Spain; 9 Federalism and democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany; 10 Federalism and democracy in the Russian Federation; 11 Executive federalism and the exercise of democracy in Canada; 12 Federal democracy in a federal Europe; Part III: Comparative perspectives; 13 Federalism and democracy: The case of minority nations a fed.