Constitutional Dynamics in Federal Systems
Sub-national Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 9. March 2012
352 pages
978-0-7735-8701-4 (ISBN)
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How sub-national constitutions influence constitutional change and adaptation in federations.
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Michael Burgess is professor of Federal Studies and director of the Centre for Federal Studies at the University of Kent.
G. Alan Tarr is director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies and distinguished professor of political science at Rutgers University, Camden.
G. Alan Tarr is director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies and distinguished professor of political science at Rutgers University, Camden.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Sub-national Constitutionalism and Constitutional Development
- PART ONE Sub-national Constitutionalism in Territorially Based Federations
- 2 State Constitutions and American Political Development
- 3 Legislative Competences, Budgetary Constraints, and the Reform of Federalism in Germany from the Top Down and the Bottom Up
- 4 Sub-national Constitutions and the Federal Constitution in Austria
- PART TWO Sub-national Constitutionalism in Multinational Federations
- 5 Bosnia-Herzegovina: Trying to Build a Federal State on Paradoxes
- 6 New Constitutions for All Swiss Cantons: A Contemporary Challenge
- 7 The Constitutional and Institutional Autonomy of Communities and Regions in Federal Belgium
- 8 Canada: Federal and Sub-national Constitutional Practices
- PART THREE Constitutional Development in Territorially Decentralized States
- 9 Quiet Devolution: Sub-state Autonomy and the Gradual Reconstitution of the United Kingdom
- 10 Spain's Constitution and Statutes of Autonomy: Explaining the Evolution of Political Decentralization
- 11 Italy: A Federal Country without Federalism?
- PART FOUR Supranational Constitutionalism and Constitutional Futures in Europe
- 12 Member State Constitutions in the European Union
- 13 Sub-national Units, Member States, and the European Union
- Contributors
- Index
