Concurrent Powers in Federal Systems ─ Meaning, Making, Managing

In 16 papers from a November 2014 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, scholars of federal government systems explore the various manifestations of concurrent powers in federal systems, analyze what drives this modern governance mode, and review management strategies that guard against central dominance of concurrent areas. Among the topics are from dualistic autonomous concurrency to marbleized permissive concurrency in American federalism, concurrent powers in Italy: the new state-centered approach and prospects for reform, concurrency powers in the European Union and their impact on the powers of member states, fiscal federation and the concurrency of taxing powers in Argentina: a historical perspective, and the concurrency of power in deeply divided countries: the case of Yemen's draft constitution of 2015. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Nico Steytler is the South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His research is comparative federalism and is the past president of the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies.