Federalism in a Changing World-learning from Each Other

by Blindenbacher, Raoul; Koller, Arnold

• ISBN13: 9780773526037
• ISBN10: 077352603X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

Federalism in a Changing Worldcontains the scientific background papers, proceedings, and plenary speeches presented at the International Conference on Federalism 2002 held in St Gallen, Switzerland, in August 2002. The three principal topics of the conference were federalism and foreign relations; federalism, decentralization and conflict management in multicultural societies; and assignment of responsibilities and fiscal federalism. The volume comprises texts by more than seventy authors from twenty countries throughout the world. Contributors include Dauda Abubakar (University of Maiduguri, Nigeria), José Roberto Afonso (Brazilian Bank of Development, Brazil), Giuliano Amato (vice-president of the European Convention, Italy), Nicholas Aroney (University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia), Lidija Basta-Fleiner (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Richard Bird (University of Toronto, Canada), Raoul Blindenbacher (executive director, International Conference on Federalism 2002, Switzerland), Jean Chrétien (prime minister of Canada), Richard Crook (University of Sussex, UK), Bernard Dafflon (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Joseph Deiss (head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland), Udo Diedrichs (University of Cologne, Germany), Bernhard Ehrenzeller Bernhard (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), Lars Feld (University of Marburg, Germany), George Fernandes (minister of Defence of the Republic of India), Sergio Ferreira (Brazilian Bank of Development, Brazil), Thomas Fleiner (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Xóchitl Gálvez (Presidential Office for Indigenous People, United Mexican States), Beat Habegger (University of St Gallen, Switzerland), Nicholas R.L. Haysom (Wits University and former legal advisor to the President, South Africa), William John Hopkins (University of Hull, UK), Rudolf Hrbek (University of Tübingen, Germany), Thomas O. Hueglin (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada), Claude Jeanrenaud (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland), Isabelle Joumard (Economics Department of the OECD, France), Wlater Kälin (University of Berne, Switzerland), Jakob Kellenberger (former secretary of state of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland), Michael J. Kelly (Military Law Centre Department of Defence of Australia, Australia), Rahmatullah Kahn (Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund, Sweden/India), John Kincaid (Lafayette College, USA), Gebhard Kirchgässner (University of St Gallen, Switzerland), Arnold Koller (former president of the Swiss Confederation), Vojislav Kostunica (president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), Yves Lejeune (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium), Wolf Linder (University of Berne, Switzerland), Giorgio Malinverni (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Tim McCormack (University of Melbourne, Australia), Ruth Metzler-Arnold (Federal Department of Justice and Police, Switzerland), Flora Musonda (Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania), Radmila Nakarada (Institute of European Studies, Belgrade, Yugoslavia), Wallace Oates (University of Maryland, College Park, USA), Luigi Pedrazzini (Conference of Cantonal Governments, Switzerland), Martin Polaschek (University of Graz, Austria), Bob Rae (Forum of Federations, Canada), Johannes Rau (President of the Federal Republic of Germany), Ash Narain Roy (Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, India), Nafis Sadik (special advisor to the United Nations Secretary General and former UNFPA executive director, Pakistan), Cheryl Saunders (University of Melbourne, Australia), Antonin Scalia (associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America), Benjamin Schindler (Federal Office of Justice, Switzerland), Nicolas Schmitt (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Wolfgang Schüssel (chancellor of the Republic of Austria), Anwar Shah (lead economist of the World Bank, USA/ Pakistan), Daniel Thürer (University of Zürich, Switzerland), Touré Toumani (president of the Republic of Mali), François Vai

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
PART A INTRODUCTION	1	(50)
Arnold Koller
Welcome Note	3	(4)
Raoul Blindenbacher / Ronald L. Watts
Federalism in a Changing World - A Conceptual Framework for the Conference	7	(19)
Daniel Thürer
Federalism and Foreign Relations	26	(7)
Cheryl Saunders
Federalism, Decentralisation and Conflict Management in Multicultural Societies	33	(6)
Wallace E. Oates
Assignment of Responsibilities and Fiscal Federalism	39	(12)
PART B THEME I	51	(144)
SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND: THEME PAPER
Bernhard Ehrenzeller / Rudolf Hrbek / Giorgio Malinverni / Daniel Thürer
Federalism and Foreign Relations	53	(21)
SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND: SUBTHEME PAPERS
John Kincaid
Foreign Relations of Sub-national Units	74	(23)
Yves Lejeune
Participation of Sub-national Units in the Foreign Policy of the Federation	97	(18)
Rahmatullah Khan
Implementation of International and Supra-national Law by Sub-national Units	115	(15)
Udo Diedrichs / Wolfgang Wessels
Federal Structures and Foreign Policy of International and Supra-national Organisations	130	(19)
WORK SESSION PROCEEDINGS: REPORTS
William John Hopkins
Foreign Relations of Sub-national Units
(Work Sessions 1 and 13)	149	(10)
Beat Habegger
Participation of Sub-national Units in the Foreign Policy of the Federation
(Work Sessions 2 and 14)	159	(10)
Martin F. Polaschek
Implementation of International and Supra-national Law by Sub-national Units
(Work Sessions 3 and 15)	169	(10)
Benjamin Schindler
Federal Structures and Foreign Policy of International and Supra-national Organisations
(Work Sessions 4 and 16)	179	(10)
DIALOGUE TABLE PROCEEDINGS: SUMMARY ADDRESS
Jakob Kellenberger
Federalism and Foreign Relations
(Dialogue Tables 1 and 4)	189	(6)
PART C THEME II	195	(154)
SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND: THEME PAPER
Thomas Fleiner / Walter Kälin / Wolf Linder / Cheryl Saunders
Federalism, Decentralisation and Conflict Management in Multicultural Societies	197	(19)
SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND: SUBTHEME PAPERS
Nicholas R.L. Haysom
Constitution Making and Nation Building	216	(24)
Richard Charles Crook
Decentralisation and Good Governance	240	(20)
Radmila Nakarada
Communities - Civil Society and Conflict Management	260	(18)
Michael J. Kelly / Timothy L.H. McCormack
International and Regional Action with regard to Conflicts in Multicultural Societies	278	(30)
WORK SESSION PROCEEDINGS: REPORTS
Lidija R. Basta Fleiner
Constitution Making and Nation Building
(Work Sessions 5 and 17)	308	(7)
Thomas 0. Hueglin
Decentralisation and Good Governance
(Work Sessions 6 and 18)	315	(10)
Ash Narain Roy
Communities - Civil Society and Conflict Management
(Work Sessions 7 and 19)	325	(12)
Dauda Abubakar
International and Regional Action with regard to Conflicts in Multicultural Societies
(Work Sessions 8 and 20)	337	(5)
DIALOGUE TABLE PROCEEDINGS: SUMMARY ADDRESS
Nafis Sadik
Federalism, Decentralisation and Conflict Management in Multicultural Societies
(Dialogue Tables 2 and 5)	342	(7)
PART D THEME III	349	(168)
SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND: THEME PAPER
Richard Bird / Bernard Dafflon / Claude Jeanrenaud / Gebhard Kirchgässner
Assignment of Responsibilities and Fiscal Federalism	351	(22)
SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND: SUBTHEME PAPERS
Jürgen von Hagen
Fiscal Federalism and Political Decision Structures	373	(22)
Bernard Dafflon / François Vaillancourt
Problems of Equalisation in Federal Systems	395	(17)
José Roberto Afonso / Sergio Guimarães Ferreira / Ricardo Varsano
Fiscal Competition	412	(20)
Anwar Shah
Fiscal Decentralisation in Transition Economies and Developing Countries	432	(29)
WORK SESSION PROCEEDINGS: REPORTS
Lars P. Feld
Fiscal Federalism and Political Decision Structures
(Work Sessions 9 and 21)	461	(10)
Isabelle Joumard
Problems of Equalisation in Federal Systems - The Concept of Equalisation
(Work Session 10)	471	(10)
Nicolas Schmitt
Problems of Equalisation in Federal Systems - Revenue Equalisation versus Cost Equalisation
(Work Session 22)	481	(11)
Nicholas Aroney
Fiscal Competition
(Work Sessions 11 and 23)	492	(10)
Flora Musonda
Fiscal Decentralisation in Transition Economies and Developing Countries
(Work Sessions 12 and 24)	502	(11)
DIALOGUE TABLE PROCEEDINGS: SUMMARY ADDRESS
Bob Rae
Assignment of Responsibilities and Fiscal Federalism
(Dialogue Tables 3 and 6)	513	(4)
PART E PLENARY SPEECHES	517	(80)
Kaspar Villiger
President of the Swiss Confederation, Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland	519	(5)
Johannes Rau
President of the Federal Republic of Germany	524	(10)
Joseph Deiss
Federal Councillor, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland	534	(5)
Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States of America	539	(10)
Xóchitl Gálvez
Head of the Presidential Office for Indigenous People, United Mexican States	549	(6)
Amadou Toumani Touré
President of the Republic of Mali	555	(4)
Vojislav Kostunica
President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	559	(8)
Wolfgang Schüssel
Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria	567	(5)
Guy Verhofstadt
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium	572	(5)
Giuliano Amato
Vice-President of the European Convention, Italy	577	(5)
George Fernandes
Minister of Defence of the Republic of India	582	(5)
Ruth Metzler-Arnold
Federal Councillor, Head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police, Switzerland	587	(5)
Jean Chrétien
Prime Minister of Canada	592	(5)
Authors	597