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Practising Self-Government: A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions

Practising Self-Government: A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions

Author: Yash Ghai; Sophia Woodman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316619384

Published In: October 2016
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781107018587

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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.

1. Introduction Yash Ghai

2. Seeking autonomy in a decentralised federation: the case of Quebec Luc Turgeon and Richard Simeon

3. Autonomy or colony? The case of Puerto Rico Efren Rivera-Ramos

4. Prosperity and happiness through autonomy: the self-government of the Aland Islands in Finland Markku Suksi

5. The South-Tyrol autonomy in Italy: a model for peace Oskar Peterlini

6. Kashmir: the vanishing autonomy Jill Cottrell

7. Autonomies of scale: precarious self-government on Norfolk Island Helen Irving

8. From sovereign to autonomous: tensions of coerced partnership in Tanzania Yash Ghai

9. The autonomy of Catalonia (or the never-ending search for a satisfactory fit into pluralist Spain) Carlos Flores Juberias

10. Defective democracy in a failed state? Bridging constitutional design, politics and ethnic division in Bosnia-Herzegovina Josef Marko

11. Hong Kong's autonomy: dialects of powers and institutions Yash Ghai

12. The autonomy of devolved Scotland Chris Himsworth