Table of Contents

Part One: Introduction

1. Rethinking Federalism in a Changing World / Richard Simeonand Katherine Swinton

Part Two: Citizenship, Identity and FederalSocieties

2. Constitutional Government and the Two Faces of Ethnicity:Federalism Is Not Enough / Alan C. Cairns

3. Identification in Transnational Political Communities /Raymond Breton

4. The New Pluralism: Regionalism, Ethnicity, and Language inWestern Europe / Guy Kirsch

5. The Federal Experience in Yugoslavia / MihailoMarkovic

6. Questions of Citizenship after the Breakup of the USSR /Vsevolod Ivanovich Vasiliev

7. Citizenship Claims: Routes to Representation in a Federal System/ Jane Jenson

8. The Aboriginal Peoples in Canada and Renewal of the Federation /Paul L.A.H. Chartrand

Part Three: The Economics of Federalism

9. Is Federalism the Future? An Economic Perspective / KennethNorrie

10. Economic Federalism and the European Union / TommasoPadoa-Schioppa

11. Governing European Union: From Pre-Federal to Federal EconomicIntegration / Jacques Pelkmans

12. Central Asia: From Administrative Command Integration toCommonwealth of Independent States / Bakhtior Islamov

13. American Federalism: An Economic Perspective / AliceRivlin

Part Four: The Law and Politics of Federalism

14. New Wine in Old Bottles? Federalism and Nation States in theTwenty-First Century: A Conceptual Overview / Thomas O.Hueglin

15. Federalism and the Nation State: What Can Be Learned from theAmerican Experience? / Samuel H. Beer

16. Canada and the United States: Lessons from the North AmericanExperience / Richard Simeon

17. Federalism, Democracy, and Regulatory Reform: A Sceptical Viewof the Case of Decentralization / Robert Howse

18. Federalism, the Charter, and the Courts: RethinkingConstitutional Dialogue in Canada / Katherine Swinton

19. Central and Eastern European Federations: Communist Theory andPractice / Victor Knapp

20. Disintegration of the Soviet 'Federation' and the'Federalization' of Ukraine / Volodymyr Vassylenko

Part Five: Conclusion

21. Multinationalism and the Federal Idea: A Synopsis / JohnMeisel

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About the Author

Karen Knop is an assistant professor in the Faculty ofLaw at the University of Toronto. Sylvia Ostry isChair of the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto,and Chancellor of the University of Waterloo. RichardSimeon is a professor of Political Science and Law at theUniversity of Toronto and Vice-Chair of the Ontario Law ReformCommission. Katherine Swinton is a professor in theFaculty of Law, cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science,at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

One of the best books about comparative federalism since the modern classics of the 1950’s and 1960’s ... a sophisticated reassessment of the nature of value of federalism.
*Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996*