Federal democracies / / edited by Michael Burgess and Alain-G. Gagnon

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Disciplina: 321.8
• Soggetto topico: Federal government; Democracy; Comparative government
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BurgessMichael <1949-> GagnonAlain
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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 federalist deficit; 14 Federalism and democracy: Comparative empirical and theoretical perspectives ; 15 Comparative reflections on federalism and democracyIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: Federal Democracies examines the evolution of the relationship between federalism and democracy. Taking the late 18th century US Federal Experience as its starting-point, the book uses the contributions of Calhoun, Bryce and Proudhon as 19th century conceptual prisms through which we can witness the challenges and changes made to the meaning of this relationship. The book then goes on to provide a series of case studies to examine contemporary examples of federalism and includes chapters on Canada, USA, Russia, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland and the emerging European Union. I
• Titolo autorizzato: Federal democracies
• ISBN: 1-135-15811-8; 1-282-57139-7; 9786612571398; 0-203-85757-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459006603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Series in Federal Studies