Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Internal Exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter -- Pierre Trudeau, the Exile of Quebecers, and the Charter -- To End the Exile -- Conclusion -- The Contemporary Meaning and Utility of Federalism -- The Meaning and Utility of Federalism -- Federalism's Challenges and Problems -- Conclusion -- Making Sense of Canada as a Federal System: The Relevance of Historical Legacies -- Historical Legacies: Their Nature, Role, Interrelations, and Contemporary Significance -- Conclusion -- The Historical and Legal Origins of Asymmetrical Federalism in Canada's Founding Debates: A Brief Interpretive Note -- Conclusion -- What Canadian Federalism Means in Quebec -- Interpretive Context -- Contemporary Trends and Scholarship: Critical Reflections -- Conclusion -- Lord Durham, French Canada, and Quebec: Remembering the Past, Debating the Future -- Coming to Terms with Lord Durham's Report in French Canada and Quebec -- Janet Ajzenstat's Introduction: Debating Lord Durham's Influence on Canada and Assessing Him as a Human Being and as a Thinker -- A Critical Hermeneutics for the Present and for the Future -- Conclusion -- Some Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Commission -- More Distress than Enchantment: The Constitutional Negotiations of November 1981 -- Causes -- Assessing the Behaviour of Participants -- Consequences -- Conclusion -- The Canadian State and the Political Freedom of Quebec: The Ideas of James Tully and Michel Seymour -- Canada's Political-Constitutional Identity and Quebec's Situation -- The Philosophical Approaches of James Tully and Michel Seymour -- From a Straightjacket to a Reworking of Democratic Constitutionalism with Universal Scope -- Michel Seymour's Criticism -- Overall Consideration of the Theses in Light of Seymour's Objections -- Conclusion -- Trust and Mistrust between Harper and Quebec -- Some Reflections on Trust and its Derivatives -- Harper and Quebec -- Conclusion…”

“…Social policies are analysed in view of wider contexts, especially the nation state, the rule of law (Rechtsstaat), federalism and democracy. The author emphasizes the dialectics between the national character of the welfare state and its manifold international references…”

Materias: “…Federal Reserve banks Statistics Periodicals…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…chapter Introduction / chapter 1 Tertius gaudens -- What is wrong with Russian federalism? / chapter 2 Why has regional development in Russia failed? …”

“…Nationalism and federalism in Yugoslavia, 1963-1983…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- Institutions visited -- Reforming fiscal relations: Going beyond the zero-sum game -- Switzerland: The new fiscal equalisation and responsability assignment framework -- Australia: The Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations -- Austria: The reform of the fiscal equalisation law -- Belgium: The Lambermont Agreement -- Canada: The equalisation reform -- Denmark: The Local Government Reform -- Finland: Restructuring local government and services -- Spain: Reforming the funding of Autonomous Communities -- Portugal: The reform of the Local Finance Law -- Italy: Law 42 on fiscal federalism…”

“…Réformer les relations budgétaires entre la fédération et les autres niveaux d'administration…”

“…The Fiscal Federalism Working Paper series covers issues related to intergovernmental fiscal relations and local/regional public finance, such as: tax and spending assignment across government levels; intergovernmental grants; fiscal equalization; local and regional public service efficiency; inter-jurisdictional tax competition; and macroeconomic issues such as intergovernmental fiscal management and sub-central fiscal rules…”