Ashgate research companion to federalism /

Ashgate research companion to federalism / edited by by Ann Ward and Lee Ward. - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009. - xiv, 585 p. ; 25 cm. - Ashgate research companions .

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Introduction to the volume /​ Ann Ward and Lee Ward
- Part 1. Classical and Judeo-Christian Images of Federalism. Introduction to part 1
Nascent federalism and its limits in Ancient Greece: Herodotus and Thucydides /​Ann Ward and Sara MacDonald
Before federalism? /​Thomas Aquinas, Jean Quidort and Nicolas Cusanus, Nicholas Aroney
The reformational legacy of theologico-political federalism /​ Shaun de Freitas and Andries Raath
- Part 2. The Origins of Modern Federalism. Introduction to part 2
Johannes Althusius: between secular federalism and the religious state /​ Bettina Koch
Early Dutch and German federal theory: Spinoza, Hugo and Leibniz /​ Lee Ward
Montesquieu on federalism and the problem of liberty in the international system /​ Ann Ward and David S. Fott
Federalism and David Hume's perfect commonwealth /​ Will R.Jordan and Scott Yenor
Jean Jacques Rousseau and the case against (and for) federalism /​ Daniel E. Cullen
Kant and federalism /​ Joseph M. Knippenberg
- Part 3. Federalism and the Early American Republic: Introduction to part 3
A system without a precedent: the federalism of the Federalist papers /​ Quentin Taylor
The anti-federalists and Tocqueville on federalism: lessons for today /​ David Lewis Schaefer
Thomas Jefferson's enlightenment idea of federalism /​ Peter McNamara
Tocqueville on federalism as an American accident /​ Peter Augustine Lawler
John C. Calhoun's federalism and its contemporary echoes /​ James Read
A more perfect union: secession, federalism and democracy in the words and actions of Lincoln /​ William Mathie
- Part 4. European Federalism: Introduction to part 4
Confederation, federal state and federation: around Louis Le Fur /​ Guillaume Barrera
Looking into Medusa's eyes: Carl Schmitt on federalism /​Nicolas Patrici
Alterio Spinelli and European federalism /​ Roberto Castaldi
Polyvalent federalism: Johannes Althusius to Edvard Kardelj and Titoism /​ Matthew McCullock
A 'European' federalism: from Alterio Spinelli to the EU Constitutional Treaty /​ Francesca Vassallo
From Laeken to Lisbon: Europe's experiment with constitutional federalism /​ Martyn de Bruyn
- Part 5. Contemporary Theories of Federalism: Introduction to part 5
The covenant tradition of federalism: the pioneering studies of Daniel J. Elazar /​ Glenn A. Moots
William Riker's rationalist federalism /​ Benjamin Kleinerman
Theories of fiscal federalism and the European experience /​ Alberto Majocchi
Postmodern federalism and sub-state nationalism /​ Greg Marchildon
- Part 6. Regional Experiences of Federalism: Introduction to part 6
Federalism in Africa: an indigenous idea with a colonial history /​ Sara Jordan
Australian federalism: an innovation in constitutionalism /​ Haig Patapan
India: a model of cooperative federalism /​Akhtar Majeed
Federalism: the Latin American experience /​ Julián Durazo Hermann
Federalism or Islam? Ibn Khaldun on Islam and politics /​ Khalil Habib
The Rehnquist court and the 'new federalism' /​ Jack Wade Nowlin
Conclusion /​ Ann Ward and Lee Ward.



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