Federalism and territorial cleavages / 
edited by Ugo M. Amoretti and Nancy Bermeo. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  c2004. 
 - xii, 498 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801874084 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Federal government--Case studies<br/>Regionalism--Case studies
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC355 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.4/049