Format:
1 online resource (556 pages)
ISBN:
9780191529627
Content:
What is happening to the uneasy relationship between the States and the Union in the United States and the European Union? How to make subsidiarity and devolution work better on both sides of the Atlantic? And what are the new models of governance beyond the state that can sustain the challenge of legitimacy? This book brings together an impressive array of historians, political scientists, legal scholars and political economists to address these questions andarticulate a Federal Vision for the 21st century.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: The Federal Vision, Levels of Governance, and Legitimacy -- I: Articulating the Federal Vision -- 1. The United States and the European Union: Models for Their Epochs -- 2. Federalism without Constitutionalism: Europe's Sonderweg -- II. Levels of Governance in the United States and the European Union: Facts and Diagnosis -- 3. Centralization and Its Discontents: The Rhythms of Federalism in the United States and the European Union -- 4. Blueprints for Change: Devolution and Subsidiarity in the United States and the European Union -- 5. Devolution in the United States: Rhetoric and Reality -- 6. Federalism in the European Union: Rhetoric and Reality -- III. Legal and Regulatory Instruments of Federal Governance -- 7. The Role of Law in the Functioning of Federal Systems -- 8. Comparative Federalism and the Issue of Commandeering -- 9. Regulatory Legitimacy in the United States and the European Union -- IV. Federalism, Legitimacy, and Governance: Models for Understanding -- 10. Securing Subsidiarity: The Institutional Design of Federalism in the United States and Europe -- 11. Federal Governance in the United States and the European Union: A Policy Network Perspective -- 12. Federalism and State Governance in the European Union and the United States: An Institutional Perspective -- 13. Democratic Legitimacy under Conditions of Regulatory Competition: Why Europe differs from the United States -- V. Federalism, Legitimacy, and Identity -- 14. Citizenship and Federations: Some Preliminary Reflections -- 15. The Constitutions of Institutions -- 16. Beyond Devolution: From Subsidiarily to Mutuality -- 17. European Citizenship: The Relevance of the American Model -- Conclusion: The Federal Vision Beyond the Federal State.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199245017
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199245017
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3052656
Author information:
Howse, Robert 1958-
Author information:
Nicolaïdis, Kalypso
