TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burgess,Michael
AU  - Tarr,G.Alan
TI  - Constitutional Dynamics in Federal Systems: Sub-National Perspectives
SN  - 9780773587014
AV  - JC355 -- .C66 2012eb 
U1  - 321.02 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Sub-national Constitutionalism and Constitutional Development -- PART ONE Sub-national Constitutionalism in Territorially Based Federations -- 2 State Constitutions and American Political Development -- 3 Legislative Competences, Budgetary Constraints, and the Reform of Federalism in Germany from the Top Down and the Bottom Up -- 4 Sub-national Constitutions and the Federal Constitution in Austria -- PART TWO Sub-national Constitutionalism in Multinational Federations -- 5 Bosnia-Herzegovina: Trying to Build a Federal State on Paradoxes -- 6 New Constitutions for All Swiss Cantons: A Contemporary Challenge -- 7 The Constitutional and Institutional Autonomy of Communities and Regions in Federal Belgium -- 8 Canada: Federal and Sub-national Constitutional Practices -- PART THREE Constitutional Development in Territorially Decentralized States -- 9 Quiet Devolution: Sub-state Autonomy and the Gradual Reconstitution of the United Kingdom -- 10 Spain's Constitution and Statutes of Autonomy: Explaining the Evolution of Political Decentralization -- 11 Italy: A Federal Country without Federalism? -- PART FOUR Supranational Constitutionalism and Constitutional Futures in Europe -- 12 Member State Constitutions in the European Union -- 13 Sub-national Units, Member States, and the European Union -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - How sub-national constitutions influence constitutional change and adaptation in federations
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