John Loughlin is a Professor and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and a Senior Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies in the University of Cambridge, UK.John Kincaid is the Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service and Director of the Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA.Wilfried Swenden is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

"This is nothing less than a kind of golden book that will be of use for scholars of various disciplines, including political science, comparative politics and international relations."- Erik De Bom (University of Leuven)

• Part 1: Theoretical and Comparative Approaches to Federalism and Regionalism1. Reconfiguring the State: Hybridity vs. Uniformity, John Loughlin2. Typologies of Federalism, Ronald L. Watts3. Plurinational Federalism and Political Theory, Ferran Requejo4. The penumbra of federalism: a conceptual reappraisal of federalism, federation, confederation and federal political system, Michael Burgess5. Territorial Strategies for Managing Plurinational States, Wilfried Swenden6. Federalism, Regionalism and the Dynamics of Party Politics, Eve Hepburn and Klaus Detterbeck7. Fiscal Federalism and the Political Economy of Territorial Finance, Anwar Shah8. Federalism and Public Policy: Do Federalism, Regionalism and Hybridity make any difference? – Evidence from Environmental Policy, Sonja Wälti9. The New Regionalism and the Politics of the Regional Question, John Agnew10. Economic Regionalism in Federal and Hybrid Systems of Government, Pieter van HoutenPart 2: Case Studies by RegionNorth America11. The United States of America: From Dualistic Simplicity to Centralized Complexity, John Kincaid12. Canada: Federal Adaptation and the Limits of Hybridity, James Bickerton and Alain G. Gagnon13. Mexico: From Centralized Authoritarianism to Disarticulated Democracy? Steven T. WuhsEurope14. The Belgian Federation: A Labyrinth State, Kris Deschouwer15. Germany: Federalism under Unitary Pressure, Arthur Benz and Jörg Broschek16. Austria: A Federal, a Decentralized Unitary or a ‘Hybrid’ State? Relations between the Welfare State and the Federal State after 1945, Franz Fallend17. Switzerland: Euro

John Loughlin is a Professor and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and a Senior Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies in the University of Cambridge, UK.John Kincaid is the Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service and Director of the Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA.Wilfried Swenden is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

"This is nothing less than a kind of golden book that will be of use for scholars of various disciplines, including political science, comparative politics and international relations."- Erik De Bom (University of Leuven)

• Part 1: Theoretical and Comparative Approaches to Federalism and Regionalism1. Reconfiguring the State: Hybridity vs. Uniformity, John Loughlin2. Typologies of Federalism, Ronald L. Watts3. Plurinational Federalism and Political Theory, Ferran Requejo4. The penumbra of federalism: a conceptual reappraisal of federalism, federation, confederation and federal political system, Michael Burgess5. Territorial Strategies for Managing Plurinational States, Wilfried Swenden6. Federalism, Regionalism and the Dynamics of Party Politics, Eve Hepburn and Klaus Detterbeck7. Fiscal Federalism and the Political Economy of Territorial Finance, Anwar Shah8. Federalism and Public Policy: Do Federalism, Regionalism and Hybridity make any difference? – Evidence from Environmental Policy, Sonja Wälti9. The New Regionalism and the Politics of the Regional Question, John Agnew10. Economic Regionalism in Federal and Hybrid Systems of Government, Pieter van HoutenPart 2: Case Studies by RegionNorth America11. The United States of America: From Dualistic Simplicity to Centralized Complexity, John Kincaid12. Canada: Federal Adaptation and the Limits of Hybridity, James Bickerton and Alain G. Gagnon13. Mexico: From Centralized Authoritarianism to Disarticulated Democracy? Steven T. WuhsEurope14. The Belgian Federation: A Labyrinth State, Kris Deschouwer15. Germany: Federalism under Unitary Pressure, Arthur Benz and Jörg Broschek16. Austria: A Federal, a Decentralized Unitary or a ‘Hybrid’ State? Relations between the Welfare State and the Federal State after 1945, Franz Fallend17. Switzerland: Euro