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In Search of the Federal Spirit - New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives in Comparative Federalism (Hardcover)
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In Search of the Federal Spirit - New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives in Comparative Federalism (Hardcover)
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In Search of the Federal Spirit examines federal theory in the
context of the new federal models that have sprung into existence
since the end of the Cold War. It utilises the federal spirit as a
conceptual lens through which to explore the revival of federalism
in the post-Cold War era - especially in the 1990s - and it seeks
to place the emergence of these new models in the theoretical
context of federal state formation. By examining the approaches of
five major contributors to the nature and meaning of federalism -
Kenneth Wheare, William Livingston, William Riker, Carl Friedrich,
and Daniel Elazar - the book identifies several different
expressions of the federal spirit that together constitute its
basic political values and principles rooted in liberal democracy.
The book explains how and why the federal spirit can survive and
prosper only in conditions of liberal democracy which allow these
federal values and principles to be freely expressed. In this way
the book will connect the five distinctive approaches to
understanding federalism and their peculiar interpretation of the
federal spirit to the emergence of the new models. This chain of
reasoning leads us to look not only at federal state formation
based upon formal federal constitutions but also to include the
evolution of federal political systems that are an integral part of
the post-Cold War revival of federalism. The new federal models are
the Russian Federation, Belgium, the European Union, Ethiopia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Iraq while Spain,
Italy, South Africa, Argentina, and the United Kingdom have each
fashioned their own form of federal system in practice. The logic
of the argument based upon the federal spirit leads not only to a
revisionist framework of analysis to explain the key conditions of
future federal state formation but it also prompts a major
reconsideration of the conventional conceptual framework of
analysis in federalism and the proposal of a new classification of
"federal democracies". Confirmation of the firm links between
federalism and liberal democracy is further underlined by a
detailed examination of the conceptual relationships between civil
society, political culture, and liberal democratic
constitutionalism. The federal spirit is shown to be
multidimensional in its properties and the book concludes with
three cases studies of Ethiopia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq that
establish federalism as essentially a way of thinking - a mindset -
about creating political stability in deeply divided societies by
creating federations.
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