Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 -- Introductory Remarks --   The Making and Ending of Federalism -- Part 2 -- The Emergence of Federalism -- 1 Why the World Did Not Come Together The Failures of the ‘Committee to Frame a World Constitution’ --    Eva Maria Belser and Salome Hunkeler -- 2 Economic and Fiscal Factors in the Development of Federal Constitutions Lessons from the History of the German Reich and the European Union --    Gisela Färber -- 3 Aggregative and Devolutionary Federalism Revisited The Impact of the Founding on the Federal System --    Karl Kössler -- 4 Federal Dynamics and Stability The Quest for the Most Optimal Structure of Political Systems --    Patricia Popelier -- 5 Was the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederation a European Construction? --    John Kincaid and J. Wesley Leckrone -- Part 3 -- The Making and Ending of Federalism – Theory and Case Studies -- 6 The Constitutional Eschatology of Federalism --    Anna Gamper -- 7 Municipalities and Public Policies in the Brazilian Federation --    Gilberto M.A. Rodrigues, Klaus Frey and Vanessa Elias de Oliveira -- Part 4 -- Country Reports -- 8 The Weight of History The Preservation of a Centralised Judiciary in the Spanish Decentralised State (and Its Consequences) --    Jordi Jaria Manzano -- 9 The Making of Italian Regionalism Foundation, Evolution and Perspective through a Compact among the Constituent Units --    Paolo Colasante.

This compilation, The Making and Ending of Federalism , includes the main topics addressed by recognized experts on federalism at the Conference of the International Association of Federal Studies (IACFS) held in Innsbruck, Austria, on 28-30 October 2021. It analyzes how federal and quasi-federal systems are created and if there are common patterns or certain conditions that promote the emergence or the demise of federal systems, including case studies from Brazil, Spain, and Italy.

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