Présentation de l’éditeur
This compilation, The Making and Ending of Federalism, includes the main topics addressed by recognized experts on federalism at the Conference of the International Association of Federal Studies (IACFS) held in Innsbruck, Austria, on 28-30 October 2021. It analyzes how federal and quasi-federal systems are created and if there are common patterns or certain conditions that promote the emergence or the demise of federal systems, including case studies from Brazil, Spain, and Italy.
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Part 1 Introductory Remarks
The Making and Ending of Federalism
Authors: Peter Bußjäger, Mathias Eller, and Julia Oberdanner
Part 2 The Emergence of Federalism
Chapter 1 Why the World Did Not Come Together. The Failures of the ‘Committee to Frame a World Constitution’
Authors: Eva Maria Belser and Salome Hunkeler
Chapter 2 Economic and Fiscal Factors in the Development of Federal Constitutions. Lessons from the History of the German Reich and the European Union
Author: Gisela Färber
Chapter 3 Aggregative and Devolutionary Federalism Revisited. The Impact of Founding Processes on Federal Systems
Author: Karl Kössler
Chapter 4 Federal Dynamics and Stability. The Quest for the Most Optimal Structure of Political Systems
Author: Patricia Popelier
Chapter 5 Was the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederation a European Construction?
Authors: John Kincaid and J. Wesley Leckrone
Part 3 The Making and Ending of Federalism – Theory and Case Studies
Chapter 6 The Constitutional Eschatology of Federalism
Author: Anna Gamper
Chapter 7 Municipalities and Public Policies in the Brazilian Federation
Authors: Gilberto M.A. Rodrigues, Klaus Frey, and Vanessa Elias de Oliveira
Part 4 Country Reports
Chapter 8 The Weight of History. The Preservation of a Centralised Judiciary in the Spanish Decentralised State (and its Consequences)
Author: Jordi Jaria-Manzano
Chapter 9 The Making of Italian Regionalism. Foundation, Evolution and Perspective through a Compact among the Constituent Units
Author: Paolo Colasante
