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Title The federal vision : legitimacy and levels of governance in the United States and the European Union / edited by Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Robert Howse
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 537 pages)
Contents Preface / Jacques Delors and Joseph Nye -- Introduction : the federal vision, levels of governance, and legitimacy / Robert Howse and Kalypso Nicolaidis -- I. Articulating the federal vision. The United States and the European Union : models for their epochs / Daniel J. Elazar -- Federalism without constitutionalism : Europe's Sonderweg / J.H.H. Weiler -- II. Levels of governance in the United States and the European Union : facts and diagnosis. Centralization and its discontents : the rhythms of federalism in the United States and the European Union / John D. Donahue and Mark A. Pollack -- Blueprints for change : devolution and subsidiarity in the United States and the European Union / David Lazer and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger -- Devolution in the United States : rhetoric and reality / John Kincaid -- Federalism in the European Union : rhetoric and reality / Andrew Moravcsik -- III. Legal and regulatory instruments of federal governance. The role of law in the functioning of federal systems / George A. Bermann -- Comparative federalism and the issue of commandeering / Daniel Halberstam -- Regulatory legitimacy in the United States and the European Union / Giandomenico Majone -- IV. Federalism, legitimacy, and governance : models for understanding. Securing subsidiarity : the institutional design of federalism in the United States and Europe / Cary Coglianese and Kalypso Nicolaidis -- Federal governance in the United States and the European Union : a policy network perspective / John Peterson and Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr. -- Federalism and state governance in the European Union and the United States : an institutional perspective / Vivien Schmidt -- Democratic legitimacy under conditions of regulatory competition : why Europe differs from the United States / Fritz W. Scharpf -- V. Federalism, legitimacy, and identity. Citizenship and federations : some preliminary reflections / Sujit Choudhry -- The constitutions of institutions / Elizabeth Meehan -- Beyond devolution : from subsidiarily to mutuality / Marc Landy and Steven M. Teles -- European citizenship : the relevance of the American model / Denis Lacorne -- Conclusion : the federal vision beyond the federal state / Kalypso Nicolaidis -- Appendix : Basic principles for the allocation of competence in the United States and the European Union / George A. Bermann and Kalypso Nicolaidis
Summary This book brings together historians, political scientists, legal scholars and political economists to address questions of the federal vision and to articulate a vision for the 21st century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject European Union
SUBJECT European Union fast
USA Government gnd
Subject Federal government -- United States.
Federal government -- European Union countries
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship.
Fédéralisme.
UE/CE Fédéralisme.
Gouvernance.
Légitimité.
UE/CE Compétences institutionnelles.
UE/CE Compétences des Etats membres.
Analyse comparative.
UE/CE Etats membres.
Federal government
Mitgliedsstaaten
Politik
Kongress
Föderalismus
Legitimität
Regierung
Federalisme.
Legitimiteit.
Federale regering.
Europese Unie.
Gouvernement fédéral -- États-Unis.
Gouvernement fédéral -- Pays de l'Union européenne.
Etats-Unis d'Amérique.
European Union countries
United States
Europäische Union.
Form Electronic book
Author Nicolaïdis, Kalypso
Howse, Robert, 1958-
ISBN 9780191529627
0191529621
0199245002
9780199245000
9780191599996
0191599999