..., and decision. In the five and a half decades following Reconstruction, the United States became a southern nation by reinforcing federalism and decentralization, especially in matters of education. The wide array of progressive, sometimes populist-inspired legislation enacted in the early twentieth century...

... it cultivated both literary publicity and public anti-New Negroism to whet an undivided national appetite for federal policing. Section 2 examines how the pre-Bureau Hoover managed his surprising familiarity with Afro-America. Section 3 establishes that with Hoover's hiring by the Bureau during the first Red...

...This chapter addresses the two weaknesses of Democratic Federalism. First, how can we guarantee all minorities are represented in the legislature? Second, how can we control the national legislature's inclination to usurp all important dimensions of public policy? The chapter evaluates...

...This chapter examines references to the United States of America in the Risorgimento's political language by focusing on concepts such as constitutional government, political representation, and federalism. It first considers the question of natural rights in a constitutional government before...

... connection between the concrete geopolitics of international relations and the abstract notion of order. This chapter provides an overview of the book’s main themes, including the notion of “democratic federalism,” the problem of empires and their position in a new global order, and the interrelationships...

...Around the world, federalism has emerged as the system of choice for nascent republics and established nations alike. This book considers the most promising forms of federal governance and the most effective path to enacting federal policies. The result is an essential guide to federalism, its...

... federalism” to nationalize itself in the mind of white America. In the French capital of black transnationalism, and satellites beyond, FBI agents and informers kept tabs on a network of black literary travelers they hoped to link by the vulnerabilities of statelessness alone. Thus, this book's fourth thesis...

...This chapter explores the notion of “democratic federalism” by drawing on the story of the British organization known as Federal Union. In particular, it considers how the political legacy of empire slowly lost its centrality in the federal debate and gave way to a new federalist approach based...

...This chapter examines how democratic federalism evolved as an idea aimed at global socioeconomic transformation by focusing on the debate at Federal Union, which sought to overcome the legacy of empire by emphasizing the economic and social emancipatory function of the democratic federation...

... variants of federalism and confederalism as alternatives to colonial empires. nation state settlers colons chiefs African decentralization de Gaulle Charles federalism freedom of movement French Empire French Republic Houphouët Boigny Félix Mali Federation multinational state community...

... virtue was no exception. There is a freedom to decline moral absolutes; even those of the polis and history, even that of freedom when proposed as an absolute. Wood shows how it came about that John Adams’s Defence of the Constitutions of the United States, a vindication of the federal...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of federalism. It first defines the key institutional features of federal governance and presents evidence as to the relative importance of federal states among the nations of the world. The chapter then offers an empirical evaluation of the ability...

.... Economic Federalism does not require the direct representation of provincial or local governments within the central government. Rather, the central government is managed by a single leader, a president, elected nationally. The president makes and implements all national policies. The chapter then reviews...

... and liberties, Democratic Federalism is likely to do well, provided all citizens are represented in the legislature. It is on the dimension of economic efficiency that legislature-only Democratic Federalism is most likely to fall short. Cooperative Federalism Democratic Federalism districts Economic...

...This chapter studies the central role that the institutions of Democratic Federalism played in South Africa's transition from apartheid to a multiracial democracy, one of the most important political events of the last century. While both apartheid's governing National Party (NP...

... exposure and vulnerability to outside threats. It then considers Switzerland's thick institutions in relation to federalism and direct democracy as well as the structure of the economy. It also describes the oigins of the 2008 financial crisis and Switzerland's response to it in the form of bailouts...

... for constructing a peaceful and prosperous post-war order for individuals and communities. Charting their interactions with other protagonists of the book, including Raymond Aron, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, and Reinhold Niebuhr, the chapter considers Maritain and Sturzo’s support of federalism as a shape-giving...

...This chapter discusses the phenomenon of “utopian federalism,” which in the 1900s envisioned means for changing the Ottoman Empire into a composite polity, possibly as a Muslim association of sharifian monarchies. Imperial utopias figure prominently in the politics of “Muslim princely regions...

...This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the value of a Senate seat and a general assessment of the value that a Senate seat added to a state during this era of federalism. It argues that from a purely distributive standpoint, the value of a Senate seat was not high, but for political...

...This chapter focuses on the federal structure of debtor/creditor law in the founding era. In gaining independence from British rule, the colonists rejected the extractive taxes and trade policies that they felt would suppress economic growth. But independence posed the question of what role the new...