Peter Bußjäger, Ph.D., is Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Innsbruck, Director of the Institute for Federalism in Innsbruck and Judge at the State Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein.Mathias Eller, Ph.D., is Assistant at the Institute for Federalism in Innsbruck.Julia Oberdanner, LL.M., is Assistant at the Institute for Federalism in Innsbruck and Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute for Public Law, State- and Administrative Science at the University of Innsbruck.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsPart 1Introductory RemarksThe Making and Ending of FederalismPart 2The Emergence of Federalism1 Why the World Did Not Come Together The Failures of the ‘Committee to Frame a World Constitution’Eva Maria Belser and Salome Hunkeler2 Economic and Fiscal Factors in the Development of Federal Constitutions Lessons from the History of the German Reich and the European UnionGisela Färber3 Aggregative and Devolutionary Federalism Revisited The Impact of the Founding on the Federal SystemKarl Kössler4 Federal Dynamics and Stability The Quest for the Most Optimal Structure of Political SystemsPatricia Popelier5 Was the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederation a European Construction?John Kincaid and J. Wesley LeckronePart 3The Making and Ending of Federalism – Theory and Case Studies6 The Constitutional Eschatology of FederalismAnna Gamper7 Municipalities and Public Policies in the Brazilian FederationGilberto M.A. Rodrigues, Klaus Frey and Vanessa Elias de OliveiraPart 4Country Reports8 The Weight of History The Preservation of a Centralised Judiciary in the Spanish Decentralised State (and Its Consequences)Jordi Jaria Manzano9 The Making of Italian Regionalism Foundation, Evolution and Perspective through a Compact among the Constituent UnitsPaolo Colasante