Bibliograph

Practising self-government, a comparative study of autonomous regions, edited by Yash Ghai and Sophia Woodman

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Practising self-government, a comparative study of autonomous regions, edited by Yash Ghai and Sophia Woodman

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Practising self-government

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

edited by Yash Ghai and Sophia Woodman

Series statement

Law in context

Sub title

a comparative study of autonomous regions

Summary

Autonomy provides a framework that allows for regions within countries to exercise self-government beyond the extent available to other sub-state units. This book presents detailed case studies of thirteen such autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts on each outline the constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks as well as how these arrangements have worked in practice to protect minority rights and prevent secession of the territories in question. The volume's editors draw on the case studies to provide a comparative analysis of how autonomy works and the political and institutional conditions under which it is likely to become a workable arrangement for management of the differences that brought it into being

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Nature and origins of autonomy / Yash Ghai -- Seeking autonomy in a decentralised federation : the case of Québec / Richard Simeon and Luc Turgeon -- Prosperity and happiness through autonomy : the self-government of the Aland Islands in Finland / Markku Suksi -- Puerto Rico : autonomy or colonial subordination? / Efrén Rivera-Ramos -- Foundations and institutions of South-Tyrol's autonomy in Italy / Oskar Peterlini -- Kashmir : the vanishing autonomy / Jill Cottrell -- Autonomies of scale : precarious self-government on Norfolk Island / Helen Irving -- The autonomy of Catalonia : the unending search for a place within pluralist Spain / Carlos Flores Juberías -- Zanzibar in Tanzania : from sovereign to autonomy? / Yash Ghai -- Defective democracy in a failed state? : bridging constitutional design, politics and ethnic division in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Josef Marko -- Hong Kong's autonomy : dialects of powers and institutions / Yash Ghai -- The autonomy of devolved Scotland / Chris Himsworth -- Macau : transformation of a historic autonomy / Paulo Cardinal -- Autonomy and conflict resolution in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea / Anthony J. Regan -- Comparative perspectives on institutional frameworks for autonomy / Sophia Woodman and Yash Ghai

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