To federalize or to refederalize: exploring citizen preferences towards more or less self-rule autonomy in federal Belgium
Belgium is often portrayed as a textbook example of peaceful federalization. Indeed, while the country was for over a century a unitary state, it went through a deep process of federalization in a few decades of time to form a federal state where substate entities enjoy substantial autonomy. Today however, a rather new debate among political elites has emerged: whether to refederalize some of the powers that have been devolved to the substate entities, the Regions and Communities. Such an idea has long been a taboo in federal Belgium, especially among Flemish elites, but the debate seems now m... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | conferenceObject |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Schlagwörter: | (re)federalization / citizen attitudes / Belgium / thematic analysis |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26989629 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/215145 |