Federalism

John Kincaid is the Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service and Director of the Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government at Lafayette College. He also is Senior Editor of the Global Dialogue on Federalism, a joint project of the Forum of Federations and International Association of Centers for Federal Studies, and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is the recipient of the Daniel J. Elazar Distinguished Scholar Award from the Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations of the American Political Science Association and of the Donald Stone Distinguished Scholar Award from the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management of the American Society of Public Administration. He is the author of various works on federalism and intergovernmental relations; editor of Political Culture, Public Policy and the American States (1981); and co-editor of Competition among States and Local Governments: Efficiency and Equity in American Federalism (1991), The Covenant Connection: From Federal Theology to Modern Federalism (2000), and Constitutional Origins, Structure, and Change in Federal Countries (2005). He has also lectured and consulted on issues of federalism, intergovernmental relations, state and local government, and decentralization throughout the United States and the world.

• VOLUME 1: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF FEDERALISMThe Political Theory of Covenant: Biblical origins and modern developments - Daniel ElazarFederalism at the Crossroads: Old meanings, new significance - Thomas HueglinThe Origins of Federal Theory in International Relations Ideas - Patrick RileyThe Iroquois Confederation Constitution: An analysis - Donald LutzRethinking ′The Federalist′s View of Federalism′ - Jean YarbroughIntroduction to The Principle of Federation - Richard VernonNew and Old Federalism: Faithful to the origins - Alexandre MarcThe Federalist Attitude - Denis de RougemontThe Origin and Purposes of Federalism - William RikerThe Ends of Federalism - Martin DiamondValues and Value Tradeoffs in Federalism - John KincaidRethinking Federalism - Robert Inman and Daniel RubinfeldThe ′Federal Principle′ Reconsidered - Rufus DavisApproaches to the Study of Federalism - Anthony BirchA Note on the Nature of Federalism - William LivingstonFederal States and Federal Societies, with Special Reference to Canada - Donald SmileyVOLUME 2: ALTERNATIVE MODELS, CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS, AND INSTITUTIONAL FEATURES OF FEDERAL GOVERNANCEAlternative Models of Governance: Federalism, consociationalism, and corporatism - Herman BakvisNon-Majoritarian Democracy: A comparison of federal and consociational theories - Arend LijphartFederalism, Federative Systems, and Federations: The United States, Canada, and India - Douglas VerneyFederalism and Modernization: Canada and the United States - Milton EsmanFederalism vs. Decentralization: The drift from authenticity - Daniel ElazarFederalism and Decentralization: Ownership rights and the superiority of federalism - Albert BretonFederalism and Constitutional Design - Peter Ordeshook and Olga ShvetsovaConstitutional Arrangements of Federal Systems - Cheryl SaundersFormation, Representation and Amendment in Federal Constitutions - Nicholas AroneyThe Distribution of Powers, Responsibilities and Resources in Federations - Ronald WattsA Political Theory of Federalism - Jenna Bednar, William Eskridge Jr and John FerejohnA New Look at Federalism: The import of institutions - Nancy BermeoThe Political Safeguards of Federalism: The role of the States in the composition and selection of the national government - Herbert WechslerSymmetry and Asymmetry as Elements of Federalism: A theoretical speculation - Charles TarltonComparative Intergovernmental Relations - Robert AgranoffThe Joint-Decision Trap: Lessons from German federalism and European integration - Fritz ScharpfFederalism, Redundancy and System Reliability - Martin LandauVOLUME 3: MODELS OF INDIVIDUALISM, COMMUNALISM, AND MULTINATIONALISM IN FEDERAL GOVERNANCEFederalism: Problems of scale - Gordon TullockFederalism′s Values and the Value of FederalismS Federalism as an Ideal Political Order and an Objective for Constitutional Reform - James Buchanan Robert InmanDoes Federalism Matter? Political choice in a federal republic - Susan Rose-AckermanThe Existence and Stability of Interjurisdictional Competition - Albert BretonThe Competitive Challenge to Cooperative Federalism: A theory of federal democracy - John KincaidExit Rights under Federalism - Richard EpsteinFederalism and Freedom: A critique - Franz NeumannForce and Federalism: Controlling coercion in federal hybrid regimes - Brian TaylorAn Iron Law of Nationalism and Federation? A (Neo-Diceyian) Theory of the Necessity of a Federal Staatsvolk and of Consociational Rescue - Brendan O′LearyFederalism and Democracy: Beyond the U.S. model - Alfred StepanDemocracy, Multinationalism and Federalism - Juan LinzMinority Nationalism and Multination Federalism - Will KymlickaTowards a Philosophy of Federalism - Wayne NormanFederalism, Liberalism, and the Separation of Loyalties - Jacob LevyDivided We Stand: Institutional sources of ethnofederal survival and collapse - Henry HaleConsociations of Fatherlands: The revival of confederal principles and practices - Ivo DuchacekVOLUME 4: FISCAL FEATURES, FEDERAL FAILURES, AND THE FUTURE OF FEDERALISMAn Essay on Fiscal Federalism - Wallace OatesOn the Evolution of Fiscal Federalism - Wallace OatesDevolution, Grants, and Fiscal Competition - Richard MusgraveThe Dilemma of Fiscal Federalism: Grants and fiscal performance around the world - Jonathan Rodden The Economic Role of Political Institutions: Market-preserving federalism and economic development - Barry WeingastReviving Leviathan: Fiscal federalism and the growth of government - Jonathan RoddenThe Political Economy of Federalism - John ChubbExamining the Logic of World Federal Government - Louis René BeresHow Do Peaceful Secessions Happen? - Robert YoungWhy Federations Fail - Thomas Franck The Success and Failure of Federalism - Michael BurgessThe Obsolescence of Federalism - Harold LaskiSix Books in Search of a Subject; or Does Federalism Exist and Does It Matter? - William RikerCan Federalism Make a Difference? - Vincent OstromJohannes Althusius: Medieval constitutionalist or modern federalist? - Thomas Hueglin

This anthology is a remarkable place to either embark on a study of federalism or broaden one’s understanding of this diverse, and intriguing, field.Troy E. SmithBrigham Young University at Hawai’i