The federal idea : public law between governance and political life / edited by Amnon Lev.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lev, Amnon, editor.

Series:

Hart studies in comparative public law ; v. 18.

Hart studies in comparative public law ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Federal government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A significant part of the world's population lives under some sort of federal arrangement. And yet, the concepts of federalism and federation remain under-theorised. Federalist theorists have, for the most part, defined their object by opposition to the unitary state. As a result, they have not developed public law theories that capture the specificity of this type of polity. Bringing together contributions from leading public law theorists and intellectual historians, this volume explores the foundations of federalism. It develops novel perspectives on the core problems of traditional federalist theory and charts new departures in federalist theory and federal power-sharing. At a time when we look for more inclusive ways of ordering public life, the volume fills an urgent theoretical and political need

Contents:

Introduction : federalism and public law theory

Amnon Lev

The federal condition

Nicholas Aroney

Federation and empire : about a conceptual distinction of political forms

Olivier Beaud

Towards a deontic-axiomatic theory of federal adjudication

Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens

Federalism and the separation of powers

Jessica Bulman-Pozen

Federalism as a mode of governance : autonomy, identity, power, and rights

Edward L. Rubin

Executive power in federations

Cheryl Saunders

Woodrow Wilson and the challenge of federalism in World War One

Duncan Kelly

Federalism and the ends of europe

Democracy and federalism: the far-reaching dynamism of democratic federations

Dwight Newman

Federalism and the plurinational challenge

Stephen Tierney.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781509907120

1509907122

9781509907144

1509907149

9781509907137

1509907130

OCLC:

980346824