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Applying an innovative approach to capture varieties and dynamics of federal democracies, this collection examines the conditions, mechanisms and practices that make federal democracies work.
List of contents
Contributors
1. Introduction
Arthur Benz and Jared Sonnicksen
2. Federalism as a Yardstick for Democracy
Thomas O. Hueglin
3. Linking Federalism and Democracy. An Analytical Framework
Arthur Benz
4. Out of Balance: Executive Dominance in Federal Settings
John Erik Fossum and David Laycock
5. Federalism and Democracy in the United States
Timothy Conlan
6. Federalism and Direct Democracy in Switzerland: Competing or Complementary?
Sean Mueller
7. Germany: How Federalism has shaped Consensus Democracy
Sabine Kropp
8. Between Co-evolution and Intercurrence: How Democracy has shaped Federalism in Canada
Jörg Broschek
9. Party Federalism in Australia
Andrew Banfield and Anthony Sayers
10. Belgium: the Democratic State of the Federation
Petra Meier and Peter Bursens
11. Democracy and Federalism in Spain: Interactions, Tensions and Compatibilities
César Colino
12. Democracy and Federalism in India. Mutually Reinforcing?
Wilfried Swenden and Katharine Adeney
13. Comparing Patterns of Federal Democracy
Arthur Benz and Jared Sonnicksen
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Edited by Arthur Benz and Jared Sonnicksen
Summary
Applying an innovative approach to capture varieties and dynamics of federal democracies, this collection examines the conditions, mechanisms and practices that make federal democracies work.
