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Federalism

Federalism. I Existing Federal States II What Is Federalism? III Reasons For Federalism IV History of Federalist Thought. I Existing Federal States. - Classical Federations - Federalism in the 20 th Century - Federal Pathologies. Classical Federations.

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Federalism

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  1. Federalism I Existing Federal States II What Is Federalism? III Reasons For Federalism IV History of Federalist Thought

  2. I Existing Federal States - Classical Federations - Federalism in the 20th Century - Federal Pathologies

  3. Classical Federations • 1789 United States of America • 1824 Mexico • 1830 Venezuela • 1848 Switzerland • 1853 Argentina • 1867 Canada • 1871 Germany • 1889 Brazil • 1901 Australia

  4. 1920 Austria 1950 India 1958 European Community (European Union 1993) 1963 Malaysia 1963 Nigeria 1971 United Arab Emirates 1973 Pakistan 1978 Spain 1979 Micronesia 1983 St. Kitts and Nevis 1993 Russia 1993 Belgium 1995 Ethiopia 1995 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1996 Comoros 1997 South Africa 2003 Serbia and Montenegro Federalism in the 20th Century

  5. no longer existing: Soviet Union (1918-91) Czechoslovakia (1948-92) Yugoslavia (1946-2003) United Arab States (1958-61) West Indies (1958-62) transformed into unitary state: Lybia Indonesia significant territorial change: Germany: partition in 1949; reunification in 1991 Yugoslavia: reduction from six to two republics after 1991; renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003 Malaysia: expulsion of Singapore in 1965 Pakistan: secession of East Pakistan (Bangladesh) in 1971 Ethiopia: separation of Eritrea in 1993 Federal Pathologies

  6. Federalism I Existing Federal States II What Is Federalism III Reasons For Federalism IV History of Federalist Thought

  7. II What Is Federalism? • Divided Government • Bicameralism • Compounded Majoritarianism • Constitutional Guarantees • Negotiating Compromise

  8. Negotiating Compromise

  9. II What Is Federalism? • Divided Government • Bicameralism • Compounded Majoritarianism • Constitutional Guarantees • Negotiating Compromise

  10. II What Is Federalism? • Divided Government • Bicameralism • Compounded Majoritarianism • Constitutional Guarantees • Negotiating Compromise • Social Solidarity

  11. Federalism I Existing Federal States II What Is Federalism? III Reasons For Federalism IV History of Federalist Thought

  12. III Reasons For Federalism • Late State Formation • Modernizers and Traditionalists • External Threat • Colonialism

  13. Federalism I Existing Federal States II What Is Federalism? III Reasons For Federalism IV History of Federalist Thought

  14. IV History of Federalist Thought Two Basic Traditions • The American Model • Montesquieu (1689-1755) • The Federalist Papers (1787-88) • The German Model • Althusius (1557-1638) • Kant (1724-1804)

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