Federalism beyond federations : asymmetry and processes of resymmetrization in Europe / edited by Ferran Requejo and Klaus-Jürgen Nagel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Decentralisation and federal and regional asymmetries in comparative politics / Ferran Requejo -- Why is Belgian federalism not more asymmetrical? / Wilfried Swenden -- Political and administrative asymmetries in a devolving United Kingdom / John Loughlin -- Italy: increasing decentralisation, decreasing asymmetry / Ugo Amoretti -- The erosion of regional powers in the Spanish 'state of autonomies' / Ramón Máiz and Antón Losada -- Devolution in the North Atlantic: the case of the Faroe Islands / Søren Dosenrode -- The Åland Islands as a continued asymmetrical feature of Finnish governance - with some convoluted tendencies of resymmetrisation / Markku Suksi -- Devolution and asymmetry in Russia / Richard Sakwa -- The Crimean conundrum / Taras Kuzio -- Decentralisation and asymmetries in Portugal / Carlos E. Pacheco Amaral -- The end of the Corsican question? / Ivan Serrano -- Conclusions: Asymmetries and decentralisation processes - comparative comments / Klaus-Jürgen Nagel and Ferran Requejo.

Since the end of the Second World War, a number of democratic European countries have established a decentralized system of government based on federal or regional patterns. Here, leading international scholars analyze which countries have evolved more symmetrically, why this is so, and what the role of political actors has been in these processes.