Varieties of federal governance: major contemporary models/ edited by Rekha Saxena. - New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2011. - 493 p.

I - Theoretical and Comparative Dimensionspp 1-2

1 - Federalism: An Alternative Category in Political Thought?pp 3-17

2 - Governance of Capital Cities in Federal Countries: Comparative Perspectivespp 18-34

II - Presidential Federal Systemspp 35-36


3 - Political Coercion and Administrative Cooperation in U.S. Intergovernmental Relationspp 37-53


4 - What Makes the Swiss Multicultural Federalism Workpp 54-68


5 - Local Governments in the Brazilian Federationpp 69-85


6 - Russian Federalism: Does it Work?pp 86-103


7 - Federalism in Pakistanpp 104-128


III - Commonwealth Parliamentary Federationspp 129-130

8 - Constitutional Normalization in Canada: The Significance of Failure of the Charlottetown Agreementpp 131-141

9 - The Australian Senate: Form, Function and Effectivenesspp 142-174

10 - Federalizing India's Political Parties: National All-India and National Interstate Partiespp 175-207


11 - Malaysia: Centralized Federalism in an Electoral One-Party Statepp 208-231


12 - Promises Unmet: Multi-level Government in South Africapp 232-260

IV - Non-Commonwealth Parliamentary Federations in Afro-Asiapp 261-262


13 - Multi-ethnicity and Federalism: Constitutional Provisions in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopiapp 263-281


14 - Federalism and Political Inclusion: Choices facing Nepalpp 282-312


V - European Parliamentary Federationsp 313-314


15 - The German Federal System and its Reforms: Structures, Taboos and the ‘Shylock Principle’pp 315-343

16 - The Belgian Federation: Tools of Appeasement, Instruments of Confrontationpp 344-377


17 - Federalism as Ideology and as Institutional Form in the Spanish Estado de las Autonomías (1977–2004)pp 378-430


VI - Devolutionary Systemspp 431-432

18 - The Union's Place: Scottish-English Relations after Devolutionpp 433-446


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