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1. The Politics of Belgium

   Institutions and Policy under Bipolar and Centrifugal Federalism

   Edited by Marleen Brans, Lieven De Winter, Wilfried Swenden

   Series: West European Politics

   For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium's politics were best known through the writings of Arend Lijphart, who considered it a model case of consociationalism. Over the past ten to fifteen years, the analysis of consociationalism has been...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of Regionalism & Federalism

   Edited by John Loughlin, John Kincaid, Wilfried Swenden

   Almost all states are either federal or regionalized in some sense. It is difficult to find a state that is entirely unitary and the Routledge Handbook of Regionalism and Federalism necessarily takes in almost the entire world. Both federalism and regionalism have been subjects of a vast academic...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
3. New Directions in Federalism Studies

   Edited by Jan Erk, Wilfried Swenden

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   Federalism has experienced a remarkable renaissance in recent decades – as an alternative way to accommodate ethnic differences; as a tool to combat remote, undemocratic and ineffective central governments; and lastly, as a means to promote economic performance in the developing world through...

   Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge