Towards a Federal Europe

An excellent new analysis of federalism and the EU that investigates their mutual impact. It shows how scholars of comparative politics increasingly include the EU among their cases when investigating the impact of federalism on key issues such as policy making.

0. Alexander H. Trechsel, European University Institute, Introduction1. Alexander H. Trechsel, European University Institute, How to federalise the European Union ... and why bother2. Andreas Auer, Universitè de Genéve, The constitutional scheme of federalism3. Klaus von Beyme, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Asymmetric Federalism Between Globalisation and Regionalisation4. Yannis Papadopoulos, Universitè de Lausanne, Implementing (and radicalising) art. I-47.4 of the Constitution: is the addition of some (semi-) direct democracy to the nascent consociational European federation just Swiss folklore?5. Lori Thorlakson, University of Nottingham, Federalism and the European party system6. Thomas Christin, Simon Hug and Tobias Schulz, University of Zurich, Federalism in the European Union - The View From Below (If There Is Such a Thing)7. Fernando Mendez, European University Institute, The European Union and Cybercrime: Insights from Comparative federalism8. David McKay, University of Essex, Economic logic or political logic? Economic Theory, Federal Theory and EMU9. Herbert Obinger, University of Bremen, Stephan Leibfried, University of Bremen and Francis C. Castles, University of Edinburgh, Bypasses to a Social Europe - Lessons from Federal Experience10. Andreas Fillesdal, University of Oslo, Towards a Stable Federal Finalitè? Forms and Arenas of Institutional and National Balances in the Constitutional Treaty for Europe