Federalism and Political Performance (Routledge Ecpr Studies by Wachendorfer-Sc

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Federalism and Political functionality compares the political functionality of federal and non-federal states and evaluates the impression of other different types of federation. The individuals draw jointly centred case-studies to demonstrate their arguments on a variety of international locations, together with Russia, India, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Australia and Canada. a radical and authoritative quantity and a helpful source for college kids and students of Comparative Politics.

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This upgrading is, however, likely only if several units merge in larger entities. But this is not to be expected in most cases because the local elites try to keep their power. The relationship between democratization and regionalization in the regions is unclear. Until 1996, only the 21 republics had the right to vote for the chairman. 26 KLAUS VON BEYME In 1996 49 regions also got the right to install the administrative leader by popular vote. On the one hand, this gave democratic legitimation to the representatives of the subunits in the Federal Council, which consists of many governors, chairmen and chairmen of the regional parliaments.

On the other hand, federalism can facilitate regional deviant behaviour. In the Russian Federation ‘electoral dictatorships’ have developed in at least six republics from Bashkortostan to Udmurtiya (Ross 1999:27). This does not mean, however, that in the Russian regions democracy is always more than ‘delegated’. References Abrassimova, Jelena B. ), Verfassung und Föderalismus Ruβlands im internationalen Vergleich. Baden-Baden: Nomos. M. (1998) ‘Formirovanie novoj rossijskoj makroidentichnosti’, Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost’ 4:23–9.

FEDERALISM IN RUSSIA 27 Article 65 of the constitution which enumerates them does not underline the hierarchical position of the three groups. In most cases the former Soviet territorial division was preserved. As in East Germany a systematic territorial reform was impossible. Contrary to East Germany the local elites had a considerable continuity in power and were not interested in losing their power base by territorial reorganization. The clear legal hierarchy of the ‘federal subjects’ as the Russians call them, does not reflect, however, the actual power and autonomy of the entities.

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