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Part 1: Theoretical and Comparative Approaches to Federalism and Regionalism 1. Reconfiguring the State: Hybridity vs. Uniformity, John Loughlin<br/> 2. Typologies of Federalism, Ronald L. Watts <br/>3. Plurinational Federalism and Political Theory, Ferran Requejo <br/>4. The penumbra of federalism: a conceptual reappraisal of federalism, federation, confederation and federal political system, Michael Burgess <br/>5. Territorial Strategies for Managing Plurinational States, Wilfried Swenden<br/> 6. Federalism, Regionalism and the Dynamics of Party Politics, Eve Hepburn and Klaus Detterbeck<br/> 7. Fiscal Federalism and the Political Economy of Territorial Finance, Anwar Shah <br/>8. Federalism and Public Policy: Do Federalism, Regionalism and Hybridity make any difference? - Evidence from Environmental Policy, Sonja Walti <br/>9. The "New Regionalism" and the Politics of the Regional Question, John Agnew <br/>10. Economic Regionalism in Federal and Hybrid Systems of Government, Pieter van Houten <br/>Part 2: Case Studies by Region North America <br/>11. The United States of America: From Dualistic Simplicity to Centralized Complexity, John Kincaid<br/> 12. Canada: Federal Adaptation and the Limits of Hybridity, James Bickerton and Alain G. Gagnon <br/>13. Mexico: From Centralized Authoritarianism to Disarticulated Democracy? Steven T. Wuhs Europe<br/> 14. The Belgian Federation: A Labyrinth State, Kris Deschouwer <br/>15. Germany: Federalism under Unitary Pressure, Arthur Benz and Joerg Broschek <br/>16. Austria: A Federal, a Decentralized Unitary or a `Hybrid' State? Relations between the Welfare State and the Federal State after 1945, Franz Fallend<br/> 17. Switzerland: Europe's first federation, Paolo Dardanelli <br/>18. Russia: Involuted Federalism and segmented Regionalism, Richard Sakwa <br/>19. Spain: the Autonomic State, Francesc Morata <br/>20 Italy: Between the Hybrid State and Europe's Federalizing Process, Beniamino Caravita<br/> 21. Sweden; Federalism in the land of centrally guided regionalization, Niklas Eklund.<br/> 22. Devolution in the United Kingdom, Charlie Jeffery <br/>23. Poland, Pawel Swianiewicz, Warsaw University <br/>24. France: from the `One and Indivisible Republic' to the Decentralized Unitary State, John Loughlin Asia <br/>25. India: A Hybrid Federal-Unitary State? Rekha Saxena <br/>26. Assessing hybridity in the People's Republic of China: The impact of post-Mao decentralization, Susan Henders Asia-Pacific <br/>27. Australia: an `integrated' federation?, Cheryl Saunders<br/> 28. Indonesia: Arbitrary polity, unitary state, Damien Kingsbury Africa <br/>29. Nigeria: a Centralizing Federation, Rotimi Suberu <br/>30. Federalism in Ethiopia: Hybridity in Ambiguity? Sarah Vaughan <br/>31. South Africa - the reluctant hybrid federal state, Nico Steytler Latin America <br/>32. Brazil: from `Isolated' Federalism to Hybridity, Celina Souza <br/>33. Tensions between Centralization and Decentralization in the Argentine Federation, Lucas Gonzalez <br/>34. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: An Empty Constitutional Federation?, Christi Ranguel Ferrero Middle East 35. Lebanon: the Hybridity of a Confessional State, Michael Kerr and Amal Hamdan Part 3: Failed Federations 36. `Federalising the Federation': The Failure of the Yugoslav Experiment, Florian Bieber 37. Czechoslovakia: A Peaceful Disintegration, Michal Ilner Part 4: Transnationalism Regionalism 38. Federalism and the European Union, Simona Piattoni 39. The North American Free Trade Agreement: The Limits of Integration, Douglas M. Brown 40. African Union: From Practical Federalism to Fantasy Union, Thomas Kwasi Tieku |
