Introduction : how federations combat Covid-19 / Nico Steytler -- Facing the pandemic : Italy's functional 'health federalism' and dysfunctional cooperation / Elisabeth Alber, Erika Arban, Paolo Colasante, Adriano Dirri and Francesco Palermo -- Decentralisation and Covid-19 : stress-testing the Spanish territorial system / Mikel Erkoreka, Mireia Grau Creus and Mario Kölling -- Germany's fight against Covid-19 : the tension between central regulation and cecentralised management / Gisela Färber -- Managing the Covid-19 pandemic in Austria : from national unity to a de facto unitary state? / Karl Kössler -- Managing the Covid-19 crisis in a divided Belgian federation : cooperation against all odds / Patricia Popelier and Peter Bursens -- Weak institutions, positive results : the European Union's response to Covid-19 / Beniamino Caravita, Simone Barbareschi, Francesco Severa, Sergio Spatola and Adriano Dirri -- Managing the coronavirus pandemic in Switzerland : how federalism went into emergency mode and struggled to get out of it / Eva Maria Belser -- The Covid-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom : a tale of convergence and divergence / Paul Anderson -- Russia's fight against Covid-19 : dealing with a global threat under crisis and stagnation / Viacheslav Seliverstov, Ivan Leksin, Nataliya Kravchenko, Vladimir Klistorin and Almira Yusupova -- American federalism and Covid-19 : party trumps policy / John Kincaid and J. Wesley Leckrone -- Facing the coronavirus pandemic in the Canadian federation : reinforced dualism and muted cooperation? / Johanne Poirier and Jessica Michelin -- Managing the coronavirus pandemic in a centralised federal system : the case of Mexico / José María Serna de la Garza -- Brazil and the fight against Covid-19 : strengthening state and municipal powers / Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues, Vanessa Elias de Oliveira, Marcelo Labanca Corrêa de Araújo and Sérgio Ferrari -- Federalism and Covid-19 in Argentina : centralisation and hyper-presidentialism / Antonio María Hernández and Cristian Altavilla -- Pandemic governance in India : the ongoing shift to 'national federalism' / Ajay Kumar Singh -- The Australian federal response to the Covid-19 crisis : momentary success or enduring reform? / Nicholas Aroney and Michael Boyce -- Controlling public health emergencies in federal systems : the case of Ethiopia / Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele and Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha -- South Africa : surfing towards centralisation on the Covid-19 wave / Nico Steytler, Jaap de Visser and Tinashe Chigwata -- Managing Covid-19 in a 'façade federalism' : the case of Nigeria / Lukman Abdulrauf -- Grappling with the pandemic : rich insights into intergovernmental relations / Cheryl Saunders -- Federalism under pressure : federal 'health' factors and 'co-morbidities' / Nico Steytler.
This book explores new avenues of international research in comparative federal studies. It re-examines the conceptual tools and methodologies for understanding federal systems, and the role of comparative federalism in the dissemination and implementation of federal concepts. It highlights the influence of comparative federalism on constitution-making as well as constitutional reforms. The volume provides innovative and pragmatic perspectives from both the Global North and the Global South, with case studies drawn from established federations such as India, Canada, Australia, and Austria, and emerging federal systems such as Italy and South Africa. Advocating a combined approach that integrates modern and traditional theoretical routes with practical insights and contemporary analyses, it discusses the issues of multilevel elections and federal governance; coalition governments and multiparty democracy in parliamentary federal systems, such as India; minority empowerment; gender budgeting; self-governance; multinational federalism; unitary states; the nation-state; and degenerating federalism. It also breaks new ground by looking at federalism from a gender perspective and deals with tools for measuring fiscal responsibility, and a social and cultural index. A tribute to the intellectual legacy of Ronald L. Watts, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of political science, federalism, comparative federal studies, political studies, comparative politics, governance, public administration and law, development studies, South Asian studies, and Global South and North studies as well policymakers, international government bodies, research institutes, development experts, and other organisations working in the area.
This edited volume looks at the relationship between constitutional law and the African political economy. It tackles a range of issues from the impact of globalization to the State's role in the economy, and the constitutional foundations for land and natural resources exploitation, regulation and protection.
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The third wave of democracy that reached African shores at the end of the Cold War brought with it a dramatic decline from 1990 onwards in dictatorships, military regimes, one-party governments, and presidents for life. Multiparty democracy was at the core of the constitutional revolutions that swept through most of Africa in those watershed years. However, that wave is either losing momentum or receding - or being reversed in its entirety. This volume examines democracy and elections in Africa, a focus motivated by two concerns. First, after 30 years it is important to take stock of the state of constitutional democracy on the continent. The democratic gains of the 1990s and 2000s seem to be falling by the wayside, with the evidence mounting that regimes are concealing authoritarianism under the veneer of elections, doing so in an international context where populist regimes are on the rise and free and fair multiparty elections are consequently no longer a given. It is becoming a battle to protect and retain constitutional democracy. The second reason for this volume's focus on democracy and elections is that multiparty democracy is essential for the proper functioning of the state in addressing the major problems facing Africa - internal conflict, inequality and lack of development, and poor governance and corruption. The focus of this volume is thus on how competitive politics or multiparty democracy can be realized and how, through competition, such politics could lead to better policy and practice outcomes.
