The Making and Ending of Federalism

Peter Bußjäger, Ph.D., is Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Innsbruck, Director of the Institute for Federalism in Innsbruck and Judge at the State Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Mathias Eller, Ph.D., is Assistant at the Institute for Federalism in Innsbruck. Julia Oberdanner, LL.M., is Assistant at the Institute for Federalism in Innsbruck and Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute for Public Law, State- and Administrative Science at the University of Innsbruck.

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Notes on Contributors


Part 1

Introductory Remarks

  The Making and Ending of Federalism




Part 2

The Emergence of Federalism

1 Why the World Did Not Come Together The Failures of the ‘Committee to Frame a World Constitution’

  Eva Maria Belser and Salome Hunkeler



2 Economic and Fiscal Factors in the Development of Federal Constitutions Lessons from the History of the German Reich and the European Union

  Gisela Färber



3 Aggregative and Devolutionary Federalism Revisited The Impact of the Founding on the Federal System

  Karl Kössler



4 Federal Dynamics and Stability The Quest for the Most Optimal Structure of Political Systems

  Patricia Popelier



5 Was the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederation a European Construction?

  John Kincaid and J. Wesley Leckrone



Part 3

The Making and Ending of Federalism – Theory and Case Studies

6 The Constitutional Eschatology of Federalism

  Anna Gamper



7 Municipalities and Public Policies in the Brazilian Federation

  Gilberto M.A. Rodrigues, Klaus Frey and Vanessa Elias de Oliveira



Part 4

Country Reports

8 The Weight of History The Preservation of a Centralised Judiciary in the Spanish Decentralised State (and Its Consequences)

  Jordi Jaria Manzano



9 The Making of Italian Regionalism Foundation, Evolution and Perspective through a Compact among the Constituent Units

  Paolo Colasante