Practising Self-Government A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions [Paperback]

An examination of how the constitutional frameworks for autonomies around the world really work.Comparative and detailed case studies of thirteen autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts outline the constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks as well as how these arrangements have worked in practice to protect minority rights and prevent secession of the territories in question.Comparative and detailed case studies of thirteen autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts outline the constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks as well as how these arrangements have worked in practice to protect minority rights and prevent secession of the territories in question.Autonomy provides a framework that allows for regions within countries to exercise self-government beyond the extent available to other sub-state units. This book presents detailed case studies of thirteen such autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts on each outline the constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks as well as how these arrangements have worked in practice to protect minority rights and prevent secession of the territories in question. The volume's editors draw on the case studies to provide a comparative analysis of how autonomy works and the political and institutional conditions under which it is likely to become a workable arrangement for management of the differences that brought it into being.Introduction: nature and origins of autonomy Yash Ghai; 1. Seeking autonomy in a decentralised federation: the case of Qu?bec Richard Simeon and Luc Turgeon; 2. Property and happiness through autonomy: the self-government of the ?land Islands in Finland Markku Suksi; 3. Puerto Rico: autonomy or colonial subordination? Efr?n Rivera-Ramos; 4. Foundations and institutions of South-Tyrol's autonomy in Italy Oskar Peterlini; 5. Kashmir: the vanishing autonomy Jill Cottrell; 6. Autonomies of scale: precarious self-government on Norfolk Islandlƒ9