Europe's hidden federalism: federal experiences of European integration
In: Federalism studies
In: Federalism studies
In: Federalism studies
In: Federalism Studies
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Federalism and the Modern State - Friends or Foes? -- 2 Federalism, Freedom and Order -- Introduction -- Federalism as an instrument for the restriction of the
sphere of authority and the enlargement of the sphere of freedom -- Federalism as a road for overcoming the antinomy between freedom and order -- Conclusion -- 3 Federalism and Democracy -- Introduction -- Madison versus Althusius -- Federalism and democracy in the historical arenas of finished and unfinished political communities -- US federalism as an instrument for discouraging democracy -- Swiss demoicracy for given historic communities -- Federalism without democracy in Yugoslavia as one unfinished state -- Conclusion -- 4 Federalism and the Making of Nations -- Introduction: Nation, state and federalism -- The making of the US federal nation -- Federalism and the building of the German nation -- Swiss nation building beyond the civic versus ethnic model -- Conclusion -- 5 Federalism and the Challenge of Legitimacy -- Introduction: Modern state, legitimacy and federalism -- Vertical competence division in federal states -- US federation -- German federation -- Swiss federation -- Horizontal competence division in federal states -- US federation -- German federation -- Swiss federation -- Conclusion -- 6 The Challenge of Carl Schmitt
for the Theory and Practice of Federalism -- Introduction -- The concept of federation from the perspective of Carl Schmitt -- The federalist answer of Carl J. Friedrich to Schmitt's
anti-federalist challenge -- Schmitt's challenge and the practice of federalism -- Conclusion -- PART II An Attempt to Build European Federation in the Absence of Europeans -- 7 Federal Features of the European Union -- Introduction
Federal government, Political participation, European Union countries
Routledge
9781315581118, 9781317138983, 9781472468574
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