num_pages: 512
description: One of the most vexing problems facing developing countries is how to integrate regions with different traditions and minority groups into a larger sovereignty. The failure to resolve this problem can lead to ongoing conflict, and such conflict has been seen to reemerge even in established states. Ugo M. Amoretti and Nancy Bermeo bring together a distinguished group of scholars to analyze the successes and failures of federalism in advanced industrial democracies, developing countries, and post-communist regimes. From these diverse examples the contributors and volume editors draw important lessons for all states that today face problems of government relating to territories and minorities. Advanced industrial democracies studied in this volume include Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Spain. Cases of developing and post-communist states include India, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, and Nigeria. Chapters on individual states are supplemented by others on particular issues related to institutional design, such as the effects of different electoral systems, secession movements, and the limitations of the United States as a model. Ugo M. Amoretti, University of Genoa; Michele Penner Angrist, Union College; André Bäechtiger, University of Bern; Pablo Beramendi, Wissenschaftszentrum fur Sozialforschung Berlin; Nancy Bermeo, Princeton University; Valerie Bunce, Cornell University; Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael Keating, European University Institute and University of Aberdeen; Atul Kohli, Princeton University; Ferrán Requejo, Pompeu Fabra University; Richard Simeon, University of Toronto; Marc Smyrl, Denver International School; Jürg Steiner, University of Bern and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Alfred Stepan, Columbia University; Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Princeton University; Ramón Maíz Suárez, University of Santiago de Compostela; Rotimi Suberu, University of Ibadan; Guillermo Trejo, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas; R. Kent Weaver, The Brookings Institution.
language: English
title: Federalism and Territorial Cleavages
titlecomplete: Federalism and Territorial Cleavages
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press