Concurrent Powers in Federal Systems: Meaning, Making, and Managing (Studies in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance): 8 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004337563 ISBN 13: 9789004337565

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff, 2017

Synopsis

Concurrency of powers – the exercise of jurisdiction by federal governments and constituent units in the same policy areas – is a key, if not the central, mode of governance in most federal systems today. Moreover, the experience has been that federal governments dominate the concurrent space giving rise to contestation. This volume, Concurrent Powers in Federal Systems: Meaning, Making and Managing, edited by Professor Nico Steytler, is the first to examine from a comparative perspective this crucial issue confronting both established and emerging federations. Case studies of 16 countries on five continents dissect the various manifestations of concurrency, analyse what drives this modern governance mode, and review management strategies that seek to guard against central dominance of concurrent areas.

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About the Author

Nico Steytler is the South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His research is comparative federalism and is the past president of the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004337563
• ISBN 13: 9789004337565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380
• Editor: Steytler Nico