Bulletin n. 1/2009
July 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Hudson Meadwell
    The Political Dynamics of Secession and Institutional Accommodation
    in Regional and Federal Studies , Volume 19 Issue 2 ,  2009 ,  221 - 235
    Although not at the core of the history of ideas, federalism has a distinguished pedigree in political theory. This paper does not turn directly to federalism, however, and to the question of whether its institutional arrangements can be fine-tuned so as to reconcile territorial integrity and cultural heterogeneity. I propose instead a focus on the political dynamics of secession. This focus reveals the sensitivity of institutional accommodation to degrees of heterogeneity, showing that stable accommodation may depend on imposition rather than self-limiting behaviour or mutual enforcement.
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