Daniel J. Elazar: Comparative Federalism and Post-Statism

Ronald L. Watts

Publius: The Journal of Federalism, vol. 30, issue 4, 155-168

Abstract: Daniel J. Elazar made an enormous contribution to the comparative study of federalism both by his encouragement of international collaboration among scholars and by the prolific number of he wrote or edited and articles he produced which analyzed the conceptual foundations for federalism internationally. An important contribution was the distinction he drew between as a broad generic term and the variety of its specific forms such as federations, confederations, federacies. A dominant theme in his recent work was the notion that in the contemporary world, we seeing a paradigm shift from a world of nation-states to a world of reduced state sovereignty and constitutionalized linkages of a federal or confederal character. Copyright , Oxford University Press.

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