TY - BOOK AU - Saxena, Rekha TI - Varieties of federal governance: major contemporary models SN - 978875967991 U1 - 321.02 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Comparative government KW - Federal government N1 - I - Theoretical and Comparative Dimensionspp 1-2 1 - Federalism: An Alternative Category in Political Thought?pp 3-17 2 - Governance of Capital Cities in Federal Countries: Comparative Perspectivespp 18-34 II - Presidential Federal Systemspp 35-36 3 - Political Coercion and Administrative Cooperation in U.S. Intergovernmental Relationspp 37-53 4 - What Makes the Swiss Multicultural Federalism Workpp 54-68 5 - Local Governments in the Brazilian Federationpp 69-85 6 - Russian Federalism: Does it Work?pp 86-103 7 - Federalism in Pakistanpp 104-128 III - Commonwealth Parliamentary Federationspp 129-130 8 - Constitutional Normalization in Canada: The Significance of Failure of the Charlottetown Agreementpp 131-141 9 - The Australian Senate: Form, Function and Effectivenesspp 142-174 10 - Federalizing India's Political Parties: National All-India and National Interstate Partiespp 175-207 11 - Malaysia: Centralized Federalism in an Electoral One-Party Statepp 208-231 12 - Promises Unmet: Multi-level Government in South Africapp 232-260 IV - Non-Commonwealth Parliamentary Federations in Afro-Asiapp 261-262 13 - Multi-ethnicity and Federalism: Constitutional Provisions in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopiapp 263-281 14 - Federalism and Political Inclusion: Choices facing Nepalpp 282-312 V - European Parliamentary Federationsp 313-314 15 - The German Federal System and its Reforms: Structures, Taboos and the ‘Shylock Principle’pp 315-343 16 - The Belgian Federation: Tools of Appeasement, Instruments of Confrontationpp 344-377 17 - Federalism as Ideology and as Institutional Form in the Spanish Estado de las Autonomías (1977–2004)pp 378-430 VI - Devolutionary Systemspp 431-432 18 - The Union's Place: Scottish-English Relations after Devolutionpp 433-446 ER -