Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: An Overview of Federalism -- Federalism's importance -- Federalism's variety -- Federalism's common characteristics -- Federalism and devolved government -- Chapter Two: Choosing Federalism -- Origins of federations -- Historic waves of federalism -- Evolution of federations -- Suitability of federalism -- Chapter Three: The Constituent Units -- The political geometry of federations -- Types of constituent units -- The social diversity of constituent units -- Establishing and changing boundaries -- Chapter Four: Dividing Powers - Who Does What and How? -- Two models for assigning legal powers -- Legal sources of powers -- Varied federal distributions of powers -- Criteria for distributing powers -- Asymmetry in the distribution of powers -- Dealing with conflicts over powers -- Chapter Five: Money and Fiscal Powers -- The importance of money -- Assignment of revenue powers -- Spending shares between orders of government -- Central transfers to constituent units -- Fiscal inequality and redistribution -- The spending power -- Chapter Six: Institutions of the Central Government -- Importance and variety of central institutions -- Parliamentary, presidential and mixed regimes -- Upper houses and territorial representation -- Principles of representation -- Powers of upper houses -- Political parties -- Provisions regarding minorities -- Chapter Seven: The Legal Pillars of Federalism -- The constitutional basis of federalism -- Constitutional arbitration -- Emergency and special non-federal powers -- Constitutional amendment -- Rights in federal constitutions -- Role and character of the courts -- Chapter Eight: Intergovernmental Relations and Politics -- Interdependence and interaction -- Roles of executive and legislative branches -- Upper houses in intergovernmental relations.

Institutions and processes -- Coercive versus consultative federalism -- Chapter Nine: Unity and Diversity -- Challenge of unity -- Repressing diversity -- Embracing diversity -- A balanced approach to diversity -- Building out: devolution -- Building in: a representative and effective centre -- Unity post-conflict -- The question of secession -- Chapter Ten: Thinking About Federalism -- Federalism's strengths and limits -- Federalism's growing relevance -- Conditions for federal success -- Learning from comparative federalism -- Acknowledgements -- Further Readings -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Y.