Almost all states are either federal or regionalized in some sense. It is difficult to find a state that is entirely unitary and the Routledge Handbook of Regionalism and Federalism necessarily takes in almost the entire world. Both federalism and regionalism have been subjects of a vast academic literature mainly from political science but sometimes also from history, economics, and geography. This cutting edge examination seeks to evaluate the two types of state organization from the perspective of political science producing a work that is analytical rather than simply descriptive. The Handbook presents some of the latest theoretical reflections on regionalism and federalism and then moves on to discuss cases of both regionalism and federalism in key countries chosen from the world’s macro-regions. Assembling this wide range of case studies allows the book to present a general picture of current trends in territorial governance. The final chapters then examine failed federations such as Czechoslovakia and examples of transnational regionalism - the EU, NAFTA and the African Union. Covering evolving forms of federalism and regionalism in all parts of the world and featuring a comprehensive range of case studies by leading international scholars this work will be an essential reference source for all students and scholars of international politics, comparative politics and international relations.
Reconfiguring the nation-state: Hybridity vs. uniformity
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The penumbra of federalism: a conceptual reappraisal of federalism, federation, confederation and federal political systems.
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Federalism: regionalism and the dynamics of party politics
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Federalism and public policy: Do federalism, regionalism and hybridity make any difference? Evidence from environmental policy
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The United States of America: from dualistic simplicity to centralized complexity
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Canada: Federal adaptation and the limits of hybridity
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Mexico: from centralized authoritarianism to disarticulated democracy?
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The Belgian Federation: a labyrinth state
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Germany: federalism under unitary pressure
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Austria: a federal, a decentralized unitary or a "hybrid" state?: Relations betwen the welfare state and the federal state after 1945
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Switzerland: Europe´s first federation
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Russia: Involuted federalism and segmented regionalism
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Spain: the autonomic state
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Italy: between the hybrid state and Europe´s federalizing process
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Sweden: Federalism in the land of centrally guided regionalization
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Poland: creeping regionalization of the unitary state
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France: from the ´one and indivisible republic´to the decentralized unitary state
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India: a hybrid federal-unitary state?
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Assessing hybridity in the People´s Republic of China: the impact of post-Mao decentralization
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Nigeria: a centralizing federation
Rotimi T. Suberu
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Federalism in Ethiopia: hybridity in ambiguity?
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South Africa: the reluctant hybrid federal state
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Brazil: from "isolated" federalism to hybridity
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The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: an empty constitutional federation?
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Lebanon: the hybridity of a confessional state
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"Federalizing the federation": the failure of the Yugoslav experiment
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Czechoslovakia: a peaceful disintegration
Michal Illner Galdós
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The Nord American Free Trade Agreement: the limits of integration
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African Union: from practical federalism to fantasy union
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