Federalism and democracy: Beyond the U.S. model

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 19-34

  Stepan, Alfred ^a  

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EID: 0033470907     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.1999.0072     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. See William H. Riker, "Federalism," in Fred Greenstein and Nelson W. Polsby, eds., Handbook of Political Science (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1975) vol. 5: 93-172.
2. Ambedkar's speech is found in its entirety in: India. Constituent Assembly, Debates: Official Report (New Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1951) vol. II, 31-44.
3. Mohit Bhattacharya, "The Mind of the Founding Fathers," in Nirmal Mukarji and Balveer Arora, eds., Federalism in India: Origins and Development (New Delhi: Vikas, 1992), 81-102.
4. Adam Przeworski, "Some Problems in the Study of the Transition to Democracy," in Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead, eds., Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Perspectives (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 47-63.
5. See William H. Riker, Liberalism Against Populism: A Confrontation Between the Theory of Democracy and the Theory of Social Choice (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1982), 247-53. As Riker acknowledges, however, federalism may also give the majority in the subunits the power to limit the freedom of some of the citizens (as the history of the southern United States shows), making it difficult for the federal government to protect them.
6. See Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority-Rights (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995). For a powerful argument by a distinguished legal theorist that group rights are often a precondition of individual rights, see Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986), 193-216. For a political and philosophically acute discussion of these issues in India, see Rajeev Bhargava, "Secularism, Democracy, and Rights," in Mehdi Arslan and Jannaki Rajan, eds., Communalism in India: Challenge and Response (New Delhi: Manohar, 1994), 61-73.
7. See Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority-Rights (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995). For a powerful argument by a distinguished legal theorist that group rights are often a precondition of individual rights, see Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986), 193-216. For a political and philosophically acute discussion of these issues in India, see Rajeev Bhargava, "Secularism, Democracy, and Rights," in Mehdi Arslan and Jannaki Rajan, eds., Communalism in India: Challenge and Response (New Delhi: Manohar, 1994), 61-73.
8. See Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority-Rights (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995). For a powerful argument by a distinguished legal theorist that group rights are often a precondition of individual rights, see Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986), 193-216. For a political and philosophically acute discussion of these issues in India, see Rajeev Bhargava, "Secularism, Democracy, and Rights," in Mehdi Arslan and Jannaki Rajan, eds., Communalism in India: Challenge and Response (New Delhi: Manohar, 1994), 61-73.
9. The tentative arguments made in these concluding paragraphs will be developed analytically and empirically in much greater depth in Federalism, Democracy and Nation, a book being written by Juan J. Linz and myself.