Federalism and national diversity in the 21st Century

Federalism and national diversity in the 21st Century / Arjun Tremblay, Alain-G Gagnon.

This edited volume explores the obstacles to and opportunities for the development and entrenchment of a sustainable and representative multinational federalism. In doing so, it tackles a striking puzzle: on the one hand, scholars agree that deeply diverse multinational and multiethnic democracies s...

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Main Author: Tremblay, Arjun
Other Authors: Gagnon, Alain-G
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Series:Federalism and internal conflicts.
Subjects:
Federal government.
Cultural pluralism.
Cultural pluralism
Federal government
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Puzzles of Multinational Federalism
  • Introduction
  • Context and Background
  • Chapter Overview
  • References
  • Part I: Multinational Federations at Risk and in Retreat
  • Chapter 2: Diverse Democracies and the Practice of Federalism
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical Foundations
  • Building Federalism and Federation: Interwar Czechoslovakia
  • Federalism Before and Following Federation: Canada
  • Federation Without Federalism? Spain
  • Federalism Without Federation: UK
  • Reprise: The Practices of Federalism and Its Discontents
  • References
  • Chapter 3: When Have Dyadic Federations Succeeded and When Have They Failed? A Comparative Analysis of Bipolar Federalism Around the World
  • Introduction
  • Studying the Successes and Failures of Dyadic Federations
  • Establishing the Universe of Cases
  • Defining the 'Success' and 'Failure' of a Dyadic Federal Project
  • Identifying the Factors Under Analysis
  • Territorial Concentration
  • Electoral Proportionality
  • Nationalisation of the Party System
  • Executive Inclusiveness
  • Equally Distributed Economic Resources
  • Long Duration of the Dyadic Union
  • Mapping and Explaining Cross-Case Diversity: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
  • Operationalisation of the Conditions and Data Collection
  • Rationale of the Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
  • When Dyadic Federations Have Succeeded and When They Have Failed
  • When Have Dyadic Federations Succeeded?
  • When Have Dyadic Federations Failed?
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Assessing the Spanish State's Response to Catalan Independence: The Application of Federal Coercion
  • Introduction
  • Historical Context
  • What Is Federal Coercion?
  • How Has Article 155 Been Applied?
  • The Procedure
  • The Request to the Catalan President
  • The Agreement of the Council of Ministers
  • The Agreement of the Senate
  • The Content: Measures Adopted under the Aegis of Article 155
  • The Catalan Government
  • The Catalan Parliament
  • Spanish Political Culture and Constitutionalism
  • References
  • Part II: The Stalled Emergence of Multinational Federalism
  • Chapter 5: Origins and Consequences of American Multicultural Federalism: Constitutional Patriotism, Territorial Neutrality, and National Polarization
  • Introduction
  • One People, One Nation
  • Territorial Neutrality and Democracy
  • A Multicultural Federation
  • Citizenship
  • Language
  • Religion
  • Family Law and Education
  • Protecting the South's Peculiar Institution
  • Centralization and Polarization
  • Concluding Observations
  • References
  • Chapter 6: 'Nested Newness' and the Quality of Self-Government: The Case of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
  • Introduction

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