Territory, Democracy and Justice Federalism and Regionalism in Western Democracies

Territory, Democracy and Justice brings together experts from six countries to ask what territorial decentralization does and what it means for democracy, policymaking and the welfare state. Integrated and international in a fragmented field, the chapters identify the importance and consequences of territorial decentralization. The authors analyze the successes, the generalizable ideas, and the international lessons in the study of comparative territorial politics as well as new directions for research.

Introduction; S.L.Greer Federalism and Social Justice: Thinking Through the Tangle; R.Simeon Social Citizenship and Federalism: Is a Federal Welfare State a Contradiction in Terms?; K.Banting Devolution and Social Citizenship: Which Society, Whose Citizenship?; C.Jeffrey The Changing Politics of Federalism in the United States; P.E.Peterson The Impact of Regional Governments; C.Dupuy and P.Le Gales The Adventure of Divergence: An Inquiry into the Preconditions for Institutional Diversity and Political Innovation after Political Decentralization; R.Sturm The Politics of Divergent Policy; S.L.Greer Multi-level Governance and Multi-level Discontent: The Triumph and Tensions of the Spanish Model; J.Subirats Origins of Cooperative and Competitive Federalism; R.L.Watts Intergovernmental Relations: In Search of a Theory; A.Trench Conclusion: Territorial Politics Today; S.L.Greer Bibliography

KEITH BANTING Professor in the School of Policy Studies, Queens University, Belfast, UK CLAIRE DUPUY Student in Politics at Science Po, Paris, France PATRICK LE GALES Directeur de Recherche au CNRS at CEVIPOF, Paris, France CHARLIE JEFFREY Professor of Politics, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK PAUL E. PETERSON The Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, USA RICHARD SIMEON Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada ROLAND STURM holds the chair and is Director of the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg's Regional Studies Centre, Germany JOAN SUBIRATS Professor of Political Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain ALAN TRENCH Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Constitution Unit, University College, London, UK RONALD L. WATTS Professor Emeritus of Political Studies and Fellow of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's University, Canada