
Defensive Federalism
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ISBN13: | 9781032281964 |
ISBN10: | 10322819611 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 226 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Weight: | 576 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 2 Illustrations, black & white; 2 Line drawings, black & white; 8 Tables, black & white |
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Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies, exploring the concept of defensive federalism as a protection of self-government against the "tyranny of the majority".
1. Defensive Federalism: Tackling the Two Faces of the Territorial Tyranny of the Majority. A Revised Federal Institutional Design, 2. Consociational Executives: Power-Sharing Governments Between Inclusion and Functionality?, 3. Exclusive Powers and Self-Governed Entities: A Tool for Defensive Federalism?, 4. The Limits of Self Rule without Shared Rule, 5. Constitutional Asymmetries as an (In)effective Counterbalancing Tool in Protecting Territorial Self-Government?, 6. Political Asymmetries: ?Opting In and Opting Out? Decision-Making Procedures in Canada, 7. Agreeing to Disagree: Federal Veto Powers in Switzerland, 8. The Role of Constitutional Judges in Protecting Territorial Self-Government, 9. The Defensiveness of Nation-States: Preventing Majority Domination in the European Union, 10. Federal Chiaroscuros: Concluding Remarks
1. Defensive Federalism: Tackling the Two Faces of the Territorial Tyranny of the Majority. A Revised Federal Institutional Design, 2. Consociational Executives: Power
-Sharing Governments Between Inclusion and Functionality?, 3. Exclusive Powers and Self
-Governed Entities: A Tool for Defensive Federalism?, 4. The Limits of Self Rule without Shared Rule, 5. Constitutional Asymmetries as an (In)effective Counterbalancing Tool in Protecting Territorial Self
-Government?, 6. Political Asymmetries: ?Opting In and Opting Out? Decision
-Making Procedures in Canada, 7. Agreeing to Disagree: Federal Veto Powers in Switzerland, 8. The Role of Constitutional Judges in Protecting Territorial Self
-Government, 9. The Defensiveness of Nation
-States: Preventing Majority Domination in the European Union, 10. Federal Chiaroscuros: Concluding Remarks