Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Sub-national Constitutionalism and Constitutional Development 1
6. Sub-national Constitutionalism in Territorially Based Federations
7. State Constitutions and American Political Development 43
8. Legislative Competences, Budgetary Constraints, and the Reform of Federalism in Germany from the Top Down and the Bottom Up 61
9. Sub-national Constitutions and the Federal Constitution in Austria 88
10. Sub-national Constitutionalism in Multinational Federations
11. Bosnia-Herzegovina: Trying to Build a Federal State on Paradoxes 109
12. New Constitutions for All Swiss Cantons: A Contemporary Challenge 140
13. The Constitutional and Institutional Autonomy of Communities and Regions in Federal Belgium 164
14. Canada: Federal and Sub-national Constitutional Practices 174
15. Constitutional Development in Territorially Decentralized States
16. Quiet Devolution: Sub-state Autonomy and the Gradual Reconstitution of the United Kingdom 195
17. Spain’s Constitution and Statutes of Autonomy: Explaining the Evolution of Political Decentralization 218
18. Italy: A Federal Country without Federalism? 237
19. Supranational Constitutionalism and Constitutional Futures in Europe
20. Member State Constitutions in the European Union 257
21. Sub-national Units, Member States, and the European Union 280
22. Contributors 299
23. Index 303