Routledge handbook of regionalism and federalism / edited by John Loughlin, John Kincaid and Wilfried Swenden

Part 1: Theoretical and Comparative Approaches to Federalism and Regionalism 1. Reconfiguring the State: Hybridity vs. Uniformity, John Loughlin
2. Typologies of Federalism, Ronald L. Watts
3. Plurinational Federalism and Political Theory, Ferran Requejo
4. The penumbra of federalism: a conceptual reappraisal of federalism, federation, confederation and federal political system, Michael Burgess
5. Territorial Strategies for Managing Plurinational States, Wilfried Swenden
6. Federalism, Regionalism and the Dynamics of Party Politics, Eve Hepburn and Klaus Detterbeck
7. Fiscal Federalism and the Political Economy of Territorial Finance, Anwar Shah
8. Federalism and Public Policy: Do Federalism, Regionalism and Hybridity make any difference? - Evidence from Environmental Policy, Sonja Walti
9. The "New Regionalism" and the Politics of the Regional Question, John Agnew
10. Economic Regionalism in Federal and Hybrid Systems of Government, Pieter van Houten
Part 2: Case Studies by Region North America
11. The United States of America: From Dualistic Simplicity to Centralized Complexity, John Kincaid
12. Canada: Federal Adaptation and the Limits of Hybridity, James Bickerton and Alain G. Gagnon
13. Mexico: From Centralized Authoritarianism to Disarticulated Democracy? Steven T. Wuhs Europe
14. The Belgian Federation: A Labyrinth State, Kris Deschouwer
15. Germany: Federalism under Unitary Pressure, Arthur Benz and Joerg Broschek
16. Austria: A Federal, a Decentralized Unitary or a `Hybrid' State? Relations between the Welfare State and the Federal State after 1945, Franz Fallend
17. Switzerland: Europe's first federation, Paolo Dardanelli
18. Russia: Involuted Federalism and segmented Regionalism, Richard Sakwa
19. Spain: the Autonomic State, Francesc Morata
20 Italy: Between the Hybrid State and Europe's Federalizing Process, Beniamino Caravita
21. Sweden; Federalism in the land of centrally guided regionalization, Niklas Eklund.
22. Devolution in the United Kingdom, Charlie Jeffery
23. Poland, Pawel Swianiewicz, Warsaw University
24. France: from the `One and Indivisible Republic' to the Decentralized Unitary State, John Loughlin Asia
25. India: A Hybrid Federal-Unitary State? Rekha Saxena
26. Assessing hybridity in the People's Republic of China: The impact of post-Mao decentralization, Susan Henders Asia-Pacific
27. Australia: an `integrated' federation?, Cheryl Saunders
28. Indonesia: Arbitrary polity, unitary state, Damien Kingsbury Africa
29. Nigeria: a Centralizing Federation, Rotimi Suberu
30. Federalism in Ethiopia: Hybridity in Ambiguity? Sarah Vaughan
31. South Africa - the reluctant hybrid federal state, Nico Steytler Latin America
32. Brazil: from `Isolated' Federalism to Hybridity, Celina Souza
33. Tensions between Centralization and Decentralization in the Argentine Federation, Lucas Gonzalez
34. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: An Empty Constitutional Federation?, Christi Ranguel Ferrero Middle East 35. Lebanon: the Hybridity of a Confessional State, Michael Kerr and Amal Hamdan Part 3: Failed Federations 36. `Federalising the Federation': The Failure of the Yugoslav Experiment, Florian Bieber 37. Czechoslovakia: A Peaceful Disintegration, Michal Ilner Part 4: Transnationalism Regionalism 38. Federalism and the European Union, Simona Piattoni 39. The North American Free Trade Agreement: The Limits of Integration, Douglas M. Brown 40. African Union: From Practical Federalism to Fantasy Union, Thomas Kwasi Tieku