Overview
- Contributes to a much-needed update on the theoretical understanding of federalism in different countries
- Examines how federalism as a theory has changed in the post-Cold War era
- Covers the issues of evolution, functioning, and continued challenges of federations
Part of the book series: Federalism and Internal Conflicts (FEINCO)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Theoretical and Empirical Dimensions
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Front Matter
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Concluding Remarks
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- federal political systems
- evolution into federal systems
- ethnic diversity
- federalism and conflict resolution
- post-Cold War federations
- federalisation in liberal democracies
- federalisation and democratisation
- emerging federal countries
- federalisation processes
- new models of federalism
- power-sharing
- federalism discourse
- recentralisation
- socialist federalism
- ethnic federalism
About this book
This book conceives federalism not as a static institutional architecture, but as a dynamic formation always in flux. This may entail processes of federalization, but in some cases also lead to de-federalization. It looks at emerging federal structures worldwide and analyses federal structures: their emergence, operation and categorization. The contributors highlight that the “emergence” of these federal structures has multiple facets, from the recognition of ethnic diversity to the use of federalism as a tool of conflict resolution. Identifying and categorizing processes of federalization and defederalization in a variety of cases, the book provides much needed empirical and theoretical discussion on emerging federal structures and the changing nature of federalism in the post-Cold War era.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Soeren Keil is Academic Head of the International Research and Consulting Center of the Institute of Federalism at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Sabine Kropp is Professor and Chair-Holder in German Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emerging Federal Structures in the Post-Cold War Era
Editors: Soeren Keil, Sabine Kropp
Series Title: Federalism and Internal Conflicts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93669-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93668-6Published: 19 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93671-6Published: 20 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93669-3Published: 18 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-5370
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 338
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Governance and Government, Comparative Politics, Political History, Conflict Studies, Constitutional Law