Practising self-government : a comparative study of autonomous regions / edited by Yash Ghai and Sophia Woodman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghai, Yash P., 1938- editor.

Woodman, Sophia, editor.

Series:

Law in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autonomy--Case studies.

Autonomy.

Self-determination, National--Case studies.

Self-determination, National.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 501 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Autonomy provides a framework that allows for regions within countries to exercise self-government beyond the extent available to other sub-state units. This book presents detailed case studies of thirteen such autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts on each outline the constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks as well as how these arrangements have worked in practice to protect minority rights and prevent secession of the territories in question. The volume's editors draw on the case studies to provide a comparative analysis of how autonomy works and the political and institutional conditions under which it is likely to become a workable arrangement for management of the differences that brought it into being.

Contents:

Introduction: Nature and origins of autonomy / Yash Ghai

Seeking autonomy in a decentralised federation : the case of Québec / Richard Simeon and Luc Turgeon

Prosperity and happiness through autonomy : the self-government of the Aland Islands in Finland / Markku Suksi

Puerto Rico : autonomy or colonial subordination? / Efrén Rivera-Ramos

Foundations and institutions of South-Tyrol's autonomy in Italy / Oskar Peterlini

Kashmir : the vanishing autonomy / Jill Cottrell

Autonomies of scale : precarious self-government on Norfolk Island / Helen Irving

The autonomy of Catalonia : the unending search for a place within pluralist Spain / Carlos Flores Juberías

Zanzibar in Tanzania : from sovereign to autonomy? / Yash Ghai

Defective democracy in a failed state? : bridging constitutional design, politics and ethnic division in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Josef Marko

Hong Kong's autonomy : dialects of powers and institutions / Yash Ghai

The autonomy of devolved Scotland / Chris Himsworth

Macau : transformation of a historic autonomy / Paulo Cardinal

Autonomy and conflict resolution in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea / Anthony J. Regan

Comparative perspectives on institutional frameworks for autonomy / Sophia Woodman and Yash Ghai.

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ISBN:

9781139088206

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