Political Stability in Federal Governments - Couverture rigide

Lemco, Jonathan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0275938549 ISBN 13 : 9780275938543

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1991

Synopsis

Lemco investigates those political, economic, and social conditions that theorists of federalism have associated with the stability or instability of federations. For many years, there have been pervasive arguments that federalism provides the best government possible for a nation of considerable ethnic and regional disparity. Students of federations have suggested that a centralized federal government that protects the national interest, and governments of the constituent units that protect local and regional interests, are the most responsive administrative forms for a society of great diversity.

Following a review of the theoretical literature concerning federalism and political stability, data pertaining to political, social, and economic conditions that are reputed to be related to federal political stability are collected and tested. These conditions include the structure of politics, the impact of political freedom, the importance of the party system, and the relevance of ethnically and territorially based cleavages. The associations among economic modernization, social mobilization, relative deprivation, and federal political stability are also investigated. The author concludes with a discussion of the most significant independent variables, the prospects for future research, and a focus on the extent to which federal and unitary structures can protect minority rights effectively. Lemco's provocative study will be of considerable interest to political theoreticians as well as to students of contemporary nationalist movements.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

JONATHAN LEMCO is Director of the Canadian-American Committee of the National Planning Association and Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Canada and the Crisis in Central America (Praeger, 1991), State and Development, The-Energy Environment Tradeoff, and Many Different Tongues. He is also editor of and contributor to Energy and Environmental Concerns in Canada and the United States, Tensions at the Border: The Politics of Energy and Environmental Coordination in the Canada-United States Relationship (both forthcoming from Praeger)

tional Health Care: Lessons for the United States and Canada, and Turmoil North of the Border: Quebec Nationalism and Its Implications for the United States.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0275938549
• ISBN 13: 9780275938543
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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