Routledge Handbook of Regionalism and Federalism

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Preface and acknowledgements PART I Theoretical and comparative approaches to federalism and regionalism 1 Reconfiguring the nation-state: hybridity vs. uniformity 2 Typologies of federalism 3 Plurinational federalism and political theory 4 The penumbra of federalism: a conceptual reappraisal of federalism, federation, confederation and federal political systems 5 Territorial strategies for managing plurinational states 6 Federalism, regionalism and the dynamics of party politics 7 Fiscal federalism and the political economy of territorial finance 8 Federalism and public policy: do federalism, regionalism and hybridity make any difference? Evidence from environmental policy 9 The ‘new regionalism’ and the politics of the regional question 10 Economic regionalism in federal and hybrid systems of government PART II Case studies by region: North America 11 The United States of America: from dualistic simplicity to centralized complexity 12 Canada: Federal adaptation and the limits of hybridity 13 Mexico: from centralized authoritarianism to disarticulated democracy? Case studies by region: Europe 14 The Belgian Federation: a labyrinth state 15 Germany: federalism under unitary pressure 17 Switzerland: Europe’s first federation 18 Russia: Involuted federalism and segmented regionalism 19 Spain: the autonomic state 20 Italy: between the hybrid state and Europe’s federalizing process 21 Sweden: federalism in the land of centrally guided regionalization 22 Devolution in the United Kingdom 23 Poland: creeping regionalization of the unitary state 24 France: from the ‘one and indivisible republic’ to the decentralized unitary state Case studies by region: Asia 25 India: a hybrid federal-unitary state? 26 Assessing hybridity in the People’s Republic of China: the impact of post-Mao decentralization Case studies by region: Asia-Pacific 27 Australia: an ‘integrated’ federation? 28 Indonesia: arbitrary polity, unitary state Case studies by region: Africa 29 Nigeria: a centralizing federation 30 Federalism in Ethiopia: hybridity in ambiguity? 31 South Africa: the reluctant hybrid federal state Case studies by region: Latin America 32 Brazil: from ‘isolated’ federalism to hybridity 33 Tensions between centralization and decentralization in the Argentine federation 34 The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: an empty constitutional federation? Case studies by region: Middle East 35 Lebanon: the hybridity of a confessional state PART III Failed federations 36 ‘Federalizing the federation’: the failure of the Yugoslav experiment 37 Czechoslovakia: a peaceful disintegration PART IV Transnationalism regionalism 38 Federalism and the European Union 39 The North American Free Trade Agreement: the limits of integration 40 African Union: from practical federalism to fantasy union Index