Federal Democracies

Notes on contributors Preface 1. Introduction: federalism and democracy - Michael Burgess and Alain-G. Gagnon Part I 2. Democracy and federation in the Federalist Papers - Iain Hampsher Monk 3. 'Togetherness' in multinational federal democracies: Tocqueville, Proudhon and the theoretical gap in the modern federal tradition - Dimitrios Karmis 4. John C. Calhoun: federalism, constitutionalism and democracy - Murray Forsyth 5. Variations on a theme. James Bryce, federalism and democracy: from the Holy Roman Empire and the American Commonwealth to the British Empire - Michael Burgess Part II 6 Democracy versus federalism in the United States of America - John Kincaid 7. Federal democracy in Switzerland - Paolo Dardanelli 8. Federal democracy in plural Spain - Luis Moreno 9. Federalism and democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany - Franz Gress 10 Federalism and democracy in the Russian Federation - Richard Sakwa 11Executive federalism and the exercise of democracy in Canada - Alain-G. Gagnon 12. Federal democracy in a federal Europe - John Pinder Part III 13. Federalism and democracy. The case of minority nations: a federal deficit - Ferran Requejo 14 Federalism and democracy: comparative empirical and theoretical perspectives - John Kincaid 15. Comparative reflections on federalism and democracy - Ronald L. Watts