ELAZAR, Daniel J <br/><br/>
Exploring federalism 

 - Alabama :  The University of Alabama Press,  1987 
 - 335 p. 
<br/><br/> Why federalism?  Federalism and the origins of the polity  The federal idea  The federalist revolution  Federalism, conflict resolution, and political integration  Federalism and intergovernmental relations  Federalism and consociationalism  Federalism in light of contemporary political and social science  What is federalism?  The federal matrix and contrasting models  The variety of federal arrangements  Federalism as unity and diversity  Federalism as structure and process  Social, territorial, and cultural expressions of federalism  Federalism as means and end  Federalism as limited or comprehensive  What is federalism designed to achieve?  Federalism and pluralism  Federalism and liberty  Federalism, pluralism, and liberty  Four levels of ends  Federalism, republicanim, and democracy  The worldwide federalist revolution  Federal ideas and forms  The history of federalism and the federal idea  Ancient expressions of federalism  Medieval efforts  The federalist revival in the reformation  Federalism, centralization, and state-building in the modern epoch  Modern federal theory and new federal experiments  Federalism: the present state of art  The elements of federalism  Federalism as a basis of political association  The requisites of federal systems  Maintaining union  Maintaining noncentralization  Maintaining the federal principle  Local government in federal systems  Antecedent influences on contemporary federal systems  Thinking federal: the role of political culture  Centralizing and decentralizing trends in contemporray federal systems  The complexities of centralization in federal systems  Overall tendencies  Policy making and implementation  Policy making bodies  Institutional responses  Parties and party systems  Interim consclusions  Will the postmodern epoch be an era of federalism?  Whither the modern nation-state?  Federal accomodation of peoples and publics  Federalism in the third world  Why federations failed  Why federations succeeded  Accommodating diversity  Strengthening libery  Spreading economic development  The future of federalism in the third world  Urbanization and the future of federalism  Toward a new state system  The postmodern epoch and the federalist revolution 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Federalismo<br/>Teoria Politica<br/>Descentralizacao<br/>Centralizacao<br/>Governo federal<br/>Relacoes com os Governos Locais<br/>Governo Central<br/>Governo Local<br/>Relacoes Financeiras Intergovernamentais<br/>Democracia<br/> Relações Intergovernamentais<br/>Cultura Politica