TY - BOOK AU - Amoretti Ugo M AU - Bermeo Nancy Gina TI - Federalism and territorial cleavages SN - 0801874084 AV - JC355 U1 - 320.4/049 PY - 2004/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Federal government KW - Case studies KW - Regionalism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Advanced industrial democracies -- Switzerland: territorial cleavage management as paragon and paradox -- Belgium: hollowing the center -- Canada: federalism, language, and regional conflict -- Spain: unfulfilled federalism (1978-1996) -- The United Kingdom: political institutions and territorial cleavages -- Italy: political institutions and the mobilization of territorial differences -- France: challenging the unitary state -- Electoral rules and party systems in federations -- Federalism and the quality of democracy in plurinational contexts: present shortcomings and possible improvements -- Developing democracies and post-communist regimes -- India: federalism and the accommodation of ethnic nationalism -- Russia: managing territorial cleavages under dual transitions -- Turkey: roots of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict and prospects for constructive reform -- Mexico: the political foundations of ethnic mobilization and ethnic autonomy (1974-2000) -- Nigeria: dilemmas of federalism in the post-military era -- Federalism and democracy: beyond the U.S. model UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/jhu052/2003006211.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/jhu051/2003006211.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip041/2003006211.html ER -