Practising self-government a comparative study of autonomous regions

Autonomy provides a framework that allows for regions within countries to exercise self-government beyond the extent available to other sub-state units. This book presents detailed case studies of thirteen such autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts on each outline the constitution...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ghai, Yash P., 1938- editor (editor), Woodman, Sophia, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2013.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Law in Context.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009710830706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Nature and origins of autonomy / Yash Ghai
  • Seeking autonomy in a decentralised federation : the case of Québec / Richard Simeon and Luc Turgeon
  • Prosperity and happiness through autonomy : the self-government of the Aland Islands in Finland / Markku Suksi
  • Puerto Rico : autonomy or colonial subordination? / Efrén Rivera-Ramos
  • Foundations and institutions of South-Tyrol's autonomy in Italy / Oskar Peterlini
  • Kashmir : the vanishing autonomy / Jill Cottrell
  • Autonomies of scale : precarious self-government on Norfolk Island / Helen Irving
  • The autonomy of Catalonia : the unending search for a place within pluralist Spain / Carlos Flores Juberías
  • Zanzibar in Tanzania : from sovereign to autonomy? / Yash Ghai
  • Defective democracy in a failed state? : bridging constitutional design, politics and ethnic division in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Josef Marko
  • Hong Kong's autonomy : dialects of powers and institutions / Yash Ghai
  • The autonomy of devolved Scotland / Chris Himsworth
  • Macau : transformation of a historic autonomy / Paulo Cardinal
  • Autonomy and conflict resolution in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea / Anthony J. Regan
  • Comparative perspectives on institutional frameworks for autonomy / Sophia Woodman and Yash Ghai.