Francesco Palermo is Professor for Comparative Public Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Verona, and Director of the Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen.Karl Kössler is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen.

• Part I: Foundations1. Concepts 2. Manifestations 3. History 4. Debates Part II: Self-Rule and Shared Rule5. Autonomy of Subnational Entities 6. Participation of Subnational Entities at the National Level 7. Financial Relations 8. Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts 9. Local Government Part III: Powers and Policies: Between Autonomy and Homogeneity10. Fundamental Rights11. Social Welfare and Healthcare 12. Environmental Protection 13. Immigration and Migrant Integration 14. External Relations 15. Concluding Remarks

In an increasingly crowded field, this new book on comparative federalism stands out for its iconoclasm, for its illuminating and entertaining selection of illustrative examples, but most of all for a significant methodological breakthrough that makes the book both more useful and more coherent than most of its predecessors ... Because they are not bound to the simplifications of a model, [the authors] are free to concede the enormous complexity of forces that shape federal states ... As a result, their accounts of conditions in individual states are unusually thorough, accurate, and persuasive.

Francesco Palermo is Professor for Comparative Public Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Verona, and Director of the Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen.Karl Kössler is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen.

• Part I: Foundations1. Concepts 2. Manifestations 3. History 4. Debates Part II: Self-Rule and Shared Rule5. Autonomy of Subnational Entities 6. Participation of Subnational Entities at the National Level 7. Financial Relations 8. Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts 9. Local Government Part III: Powers and Policies: Between Autonomy and Homogeneity10. Fundamental Rights11. Social Welfare and Healthcare 12. Environmental Protection 13. Immigration and Migrant Integration 14. External Relations 15. Concluding Remarks

In an increasingly crowded field, this new book on comparative federalism stands out for its iconoclasm, for its illuminating and entertaining selection of illustrative examples, but most of all for a significant methodological breakthrough that makes the book both more useful and more coherent than most of its predecessors ... Because they are not bound to the simplifications of a model, [the authors] are free to concede the enormous complexity of forces that shape federal states ... As a result, their accounts of conditions in individual states are unusually thorough, accurate, and persuasive.

Francesco Palermo is Professor for Comparative Public Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Verona, and Director of the Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen.Karl Kössler is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen.

• Part I: Foundations1. Concepts 2. Manifestations 3. History 4. Debates Part II: Self-Rule and Shared Rule5. Autonomy of Subnational Entities 6. Participation of Subnational Entities at the National Level 7. Financial Relations 8. Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts 9. Local Government Part III: Powers and Policies: Between Autonomy and Homogeneity10. Fundamental Rights11. Social Welfare and Healthcare 12. Environmental Protection 13. Immigration and Migrant Integration 14. External Relations 15. Concluding Remarks

In an increasingly crowded field, this new book on comparative federalism stands out for its iconoclasm, for its illuminating and entertaining selection of illustrative examples, but most of all for a significant methodological breakthrough that makes the book both more useful and more coherent than most of its predecessors ... Because they are not bound to the simplifications of a model, [the authors] are free to concede the enormous complexity of forces that shape federal states ... As a result, their accounts of conditions in individual states are unusually thorough, accurate, and persuasive.