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245 00 $aFederalism beyond federations :$basymmetry and processes of resymmetrization in Europe /$cedited by Ferran Requejo and Klaus-Jürgen Nagel.
260 $aFarnham, Surrey, England ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate Pub.,$cc2011.
300 $axv, 279 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aFederalism studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aDecentralisation and federal and regional asymmetries in comparative politics / Ferran Requejo -- Why is Belgian federalism not more asymmetrical? / Wilfried Swendon -- Political and administrive asymmetries in a devolving United Kingdom / John Loughlin -- Italy : increasing decentralisation, decreasing asymmetry / Ugo Amoretti -- The erosion of regional powers in the Spanish 'state of autonomies' / Ramón Máiz and Antón Losada -- Devolution in the North Atlantic : the case of the Faroe Islands / Søren Dosenrode -- The Åland Islands as a continued asymmetrical feature of Finnish governance -- with some convoluted tendencies of resymmetrisation / Markku Suksi -- Devolution and asymmetry in Russia / Richard Sakwa -- The Crimean conundrum / Taras Kuzio -- Decentralisation and asymmetries in Portugal / Carlos E. Pacheco Amaral -- The end of the Corsican question? / Ivan Serrano -- Conclusions : Asymmetries and decentralisation processes -- comparative comments / Klaus-Jürgen Nagel and Ferran Requejo.
520 $a"Since the end of the Second World War, a set of democratic European countries have established a decentralized system of government based on federal or regional patterns. Some of these systems initially displayed an asymmetrical trend, however, some democracies have implemented a subsequent process of re-symmetrization that changes the structure and the legitimization of the previous political agreements. Charting the evolution of decentralization processes and asymmetries implemented in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, leading international scholars illustrate which countries have evolved more symmetrically, why this is so and what the role of political actors in these processes have been.
520 $aIn doing so, each case study: Examines the causes of the legal and constitutional asymmetries and the main political cleavages. Analyses the main institutions, actors and factors that influence the political dynamics of the territorial debate. Questions whether there is such a process of re-symmetrization Presents the main actors in favour of the process of re-symmetrization and of maintaining the constitutional and legal asymmetriesWritten accessibly and contributing to key debates on federalism and asymmetry, Federalism Beyond Federations appeals to academics, politicians, decision-makers and all those interested in the political problems facing modern democracies."--Pub. desc.
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700 1 $aRequejo Coll, Ferran.
700 1 $aNagel, Klaus-Jürgen.
830 0 $aFederalism studies.
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