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Studies in Territorial and Cultural
Diversity Governance
Edited by
Francesco Palermo
Joseph Marko
VOLUME 3
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Federalism as Decision-Making
Changes in Structures, Procedures and Policies
Edited by
Francesco Palermo
Elisabeth Alber
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Federalism as decision-making : changes in structures, procedures and policies / edited by Francesco
Palermo, Elisabeth Alber.
pages cm. -- (Studies in territorial and cultural diversity governance ; volume 3)
Includes index.
“The volume largely originates from papers presented at the international conference “Federalism as
Decision-Making: Changes in Structures, Procedures and Policies” held between 11–13 September 2013 in the
Italian Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen (South Tyrol).”
ISBN 978-90-04-27450-1 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-90-04-27451-8 (e-book) 1. Federal
government--Congresses. I. Palermo, Francesco, editor. II. Alber, Elisabeth, editor.
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Contents
About the Authors ix
List of Acronyms xvi
Introduction: The Idea and the Aim of this Book 1
Francesco Palermo and Elisabeth Alber
PART 1
Federalism, Democracy and Governance
1 Multilevel Governance and the Reconfiguration of Political Space:
Theoretical Considerations from a Multinational Perspective 7
Alain-G. Gagnon
2 The Interdependence of Federalism and Democracy in Australia 20
Cheryl Saunders
3 Political Identity and American Federalism 40
G. Alan Tarr
4 Policy Coercion and Administrative Cooperation in American
Federalism 62
John Kincaid
PART 2
Participation Mechanisms and Procedures
Part 2 A
Asymmetries and Identities
5 ‘Fragile Federations’ and the Dynamics of Devolution 79
Nico Steytler and Jaap de Visser
6 The Unsettled Settlement: Scottish Independence or United Kingdom
Devolution? 102
Michael Burgess
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7 Constitutional Semantics and Autonomy within Indian Federalism 120
Ajay Kumar Singh
8 Genesis of Federalism, Regional Development and Regional Policy of
Post–Soviet Russia 148
Viacheslav E. Seliverstov
Part 2 B
Intergovernmental Relations
9 Can We Talk about Federalism and Federalization without
Co-Governance? ‘Participation’ of the Autonomous Communities
in Spanish Central Government Decision-Making 169
Mercè Corretja Torrens and Mireia Grau Creus
10 Intergovernmental Relations in Australia: New Modes, Old
Realities 192
Alan Fenna and John Phillimore
11 Intergovernmental Decision-Making in Financial Affairs in Germany:
Institutions, Formal and Informal Rules and Peculiarities 213
Gisela Färber
12 Fiscal Federalism and Federal Decisions: The Case of Argentina and
Its Evolution in the Last Two Decades 228
Miguel Angel Asensio
PART 3
Policy Areas Compared
13 Multilevel Governance of Immigration: An Emerging Trend for
Europe to Follow? 247
Karl Kössler
14 Challenging Institutional Models: The Case of Environmental
Protection and Management 270
Mariachiara Alberton and Francesco Palermo
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15 ‘South Africa Inc.’: The Rise of the Developmental State
and the Corporatization of Intergovernmental Relations 292
Derek Powell and Phindile Ntliziywana
16 Benchmarking as a New Mode of Coordination in Federal
Systems 315
Alan Fenna and Felix Knüpling
17 Federalism as Decision-Making: Security Structures, Procedures
and Policies 339
Christian Leuprecht, Mario Kölling and Todd Hataley
18 Regionalization in Central and Eastern Europe: Limits and
Perspectives of an Externally Driven Process 358
Sara Parolari and Martina Trettel
19 Varieties of Decentralization, Institutional Complementarities,
and Economic Growth: Evidence in oecd Countries 378
Andrea Filippetti and Agnese Sacchi
PART 4
Institutional Innovation and Participatory Democracy
20 Participatory Initiatives and New Instruments of Direct
Democracy in Austrian Federalism 417
Peter Bußjäger
21 Theoretical Framework and Constitutional Implications:
Participatory Democracy as Decision-Making in Multilayered
Italy 428
Matteo Nicolini
22 Framing Subnational ‘Institutional Innovation’ and ‘Participatory
Democracy’ in Italy: Some Findings on Current Structures,
Procedures and Dynamics 448
Elisabeth Alber and Alice Valdesalici
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23 Subnational Institutional Innovation and Participatory Democracy:
The Case of Switzerland 479
Nicolas Schmitt
PART 5
Federalism: From Theory to Governance
24 Regulating Pluralism: Federalism as Decision-Making and New
Challenges for Federal Studies 499
Francesco Palermo
Index 515
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About the Authors
Elisabeth Alber
is senior researcher and program officer (eurac Federal Scholar in Residence
Program) at the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism at the
European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen (eurac). Her research and publica-
tions mainly focus on comparative federalism and regionalism, autonomies
and minority rights as well as participatory and deliberative democracy in
compound states.
Mariachiara Alberton
is senior researcher in environmental law at the Institute for Studies on
Federalism and Regionalism at the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen
(eurac). She holds a Ph.D. in Law and Economics and is a qualified lawyer.
She has extensively published on environmental issues and recently she coor-
dinated the eu-China Governance Programme ‘Regulating and Promoting
Public Participation in eia in Selected Pilot Provinces and Municipalities’.
Miguel Angel Asensio
is professor of economic history and public finance as well as director of the
public administration doctoral program (unl). He was fulbright scholar at
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, visiting professor in Canada and con-
sultant for the World Bank and the Organization of American States. He is a
member of the Asociación Argentina de Economía Política and the Federalism
Institute (Córdoba). He was Minister of Public Finance (province of Santa Fe)
and member of the Federal Commission for Taxes and National Senate’s
adviser (Argentina).
Michael Burgess
is professor of federal studies and director of the Centre for Federal Studies at
the University of Kent. He has published widely on comparative federalism,
the British tradition of federalism, Canadian constitutional politics and feder-
alism in the European Union. His latest book titled ‘In Search of the Federal
Spirit: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Comparative Federalism’
was published in 2012 by oup. He is currently working on a research project
about periodic revivals of federalism in world politics.
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x About the Authors
Peter Bußjäger
is professor at the Institute for Public Law at the University of Innsbruck and
head of the Institute of Federalism in Innsbruck. He is also member of the
constitutional court of the principality of Liechtenstein and researcher at the
Liechtenstein-Institute in Bendern. His main research fields are federalism in
Austria and Europe, multi-level governance as well as constitutional and
administrative law in Austria and Liechtenstein.
Mercè Corretja Torrens
is head of the research unit at the Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics (iea) in
Barcelona and is associated professor of the Barcelona University as well. She
got a Ph.D. in Law at this University and worked in the legal services of the
Catalan administration as barrister and advisor.
Gisela Färber
is professor holding the chair of public finance at the German University of
Administrative Sciences Speyer. She also is director of the project network
‘Comparing public sector performance and benchmarking’ at the German
Research Institute of Public Administration. She is and has been member of
various expert and parliamentary commissions as well as advisory councils of
federal and states’ governments in Germany and international governments.
Alan Fenna
is professor of politics at the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin
University, Western Australia. He works in the areas of Australian and com-
parative federalism as well as economic and social policy.
Andrea Filippetti
is Marie Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science
and researcher at the Institute of Regional Studies at the National Research
Council (cnr) in Rome. He is interested in decentralization and institutions,
skills, technological change and productivity growth. He has been visiting fel-
low at Birkbeck College, University of London, fulbright-Schuman fellow at
Harvard University and visiting fellow at the University of Queensland, Faculty
of Economics, and at the School of Government, Beijing Normal University.
Alain-G. Gagnon
is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and holds the Canada Research
Chair in Québec and Canadian Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
His most recent books include, as author, ‘Minority Nations in the Age of
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