Contents

Cover

Contents

Copyright

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Sub-national Constitutionalism and Constitutional Development

PART ONE Sub-national Constitutionalism in Territorially Based Federations

2 State Constitutions and American Political Development

3 Legislative Competences, Budgetary Constraints, and the Reform of Federalism in Germany from the Top Down and the Bottom Up

4 Sub-national Constitutions and the Federal Constitution in Austria

PART TWO Sub-national Constitutionalism in Multinational Federations

5 Bosnia-Herzegovina: Trying to Build a Federal State on Paradoxes

6 New Constitutions for All Swiss Cantons: A Contemporary Challenge

7 The Constitutional and Institutional Autonomy of Communities and Regions in Federal Belgium

8 Canada: Federal and Sub-national Constitutional Practices

PART THREE Constitutional Development in Territorially Decentralized States

9 Quiet Devolution: Sub-state Autonomy and the Gradual Reconstitution of the United Kingdom

10 Spain’s Constitution and Statutes of Autonomy: Explaining the Evolution of Political Decentralization

11 Italy: A Federal Country without Federalism?

PART FOUR Supranational Constitutionalism and Constitutional Futures in Europe

12 Member State Constitutions in the European Union

13 Sub-national Units, Member States, and the European Union

Contributors

Index