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Federalism, Plurinationality and Democratic Constitutionalism

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Theory and Cases

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Federalism, Plurinationality and Democratic Constitutionalism book

Theory and Cases
Edited ByFerran Requejo, Miquel Caminal Badia
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 10 November 2011
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203157244
Pages 392
eBook ISBN 9780203157244
Subjects Politics & International Relations
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Requejo, F., & Caminal Badia, M. (Eds.). (2011). Federalism, Plurinationality and Democratic Constitutionalism: Theory and Cases (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203157244

ABSTRACT

This book provides a theoretical and comparative analysis of federalism and federations in plurinational democracies, examining how states with distinct peoples and communities coexist (or not).

Through a theoretical approach to democracy and federalism, and interdisciplinary analysis of plurinationality in state organization, including case studies of the UK, Russia, Canada, Belgium, India, Spain, Switzerland and Bolivia, this text assesses the possibilities and limits of federalism as a way to recognize and accommodate multinationalism in plurinational democracies. It evaluates a range of strategies used by states to support national, ethnic, linguistic or religious collectives in present-day liberal democracies. Leading scholars in the field evaluate the institutional and practical repercussions regarding the issue of recognition and accommodation of national minorities in a globalised world, through different theoretical perspectives to build up a detailed picture of problems and solutions to multinationalism. Looking both within and beyond the state, this is an invaluable examination of dilemmas and institutional challenges faced by many modern democracies.

Federalism, Plurinationality and Democratic Constitutionalism will be of interest to students, researchers and scholars of democracy, nationalism, federalism and constitutionalism.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|14 pages

Democracy and federalism in plurinational societies

part |2 pages

PART I: Theory

chapter 2|34 pages

Territorial pluralism: its forms, flaws, and virtues

chapter 3|34 pages

The unfreedom of the moderns: in the post- 9/11 age of constitutionalism and imperialism

chapter 4|23 pages

The moral foundations of asymmetrical federalism: normative considerations

chapter 5|27 pages

The lack of national pluralism in federal theory and federations: plurinational federalism in a comparative and value pluralist approach

part |2 pages

Part II: Cases

chapter 6|34 pages

Belgian federalism: means to an end?

chapter 7|14 pages

Canada: a territorial or a multinational federation?

chapter 8|23 pages

The United Kingdom as a plurinational state

chapter 9|35 pages

India: unity in diversity through an evolving federalism

chapter 10|23 pages

The search for federalism in the Russian Federation

chapter 11|29 pages

The Bolivian invention: plurinationality and indigenous people within an unusual composite state structure

chapter 12|29 pages

Multi- lingual but mono- national: exploring and explaining Switzerland’s exceptionalism

chapter 13|41 pages

The Spanish “state of autonomous communities”: nationalist resistance and federal horizons

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