The Changing Faces of Federalism: Institutional Reconfiguration in Europe from East to West (Europe in Change) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719069963 ISBN 13: 9780719069963

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The book gives an extraordinary contribution to the theoretical, historical, legal and economic debate about the continuity/discontinuity in the European integration process and the (projected) new constitution of the European Union.

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About the Author

Vojtech Mastny is a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Essen, Germany, and Research Associate of the Woodrow Wilson International School for Scholars in Washington DC, USA

From the Back Cover

The changing faces of federalism is an extraordinary book that provides a rigorous and original view of what will be the future of the European Union. It describes and discusses the tradition and the institutions of federalism in the Eastern, Central and Western European countries and deals thoroughly with many innovative issues about federalism such as multi-level-governance, network government, devolution, subsidiarity, asymmetry and functionalism.

A fundamental assumption of the book is that the European enlargement and the new European constitution could result in two major evolutions in the future: one is a full federal state in the traditional hierarchical sense, the other is an institutional response to the effects of the technological innovations of our epoch, which would be established through the insertion of the European Union within the emerging broad network of local, national, continental and intercontinental bodies at world level.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719069963
• ISBN 13: 9780719069963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Ortino Sergio, Zagar Mitja, Mastny Vojtech