| Description |
1 online resource (368 pages) |
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Routledge Series in Federal Studies |
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Routledge series in regional and federal studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
Examines the evolution of relationship between federalism and democracy and features case studies on USA, Russia, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Canada and the European Union |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Federal government.
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Democracy.
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Comparative government.
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Comparative government
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Democracy
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Federal government
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gagnon, Alain-G
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| ISBN |
9780203857571 |
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0203857577 |
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