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Thinking About Federal Systems in the 21st Century in Light of the European Experience with “Operational” Federalism

The volume has presented ten chapters divided into four parts looking at different aspects of the dynamics of federalist systems over time. Part IV is represented by this concluding chapter which looks at the recent European experience and how it has changed at the supranational level. We will not discuss what has happened within nation-states because that has, in part, been covered by Agranoff, Chapter 10. Before drawing the lessons from the ten chapters presented above, we need to review the major categories covered by the volume: the constitutional and political framework, the fiscal framew…