The Federal Vision: Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the US and EU Book

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	Preface
	Introduction: The Federal Vision, Levels of Governance, and Legitimacy	1
1	The United States and the European Union: Models for Their Epochs	31
2	Federalism without Constitutionalism: Europe's Sonderweg	54
3	Centralization and Its Discontents: The Rhythms of Federalism in the United States and the European Union	73
4	Blueprints for Change: Devolution and Subsidiarity in the United States and the European Union	118
5	Devolution in the United States: Rhetoric and Reality	144
6	Federalism in the European Union: Rhetoric and Reality	161
7	The Role of Law in the Functioning of Federal Systems	191
8	Comparative Federalism and the Issue of Commandeering	213
9	Regulatory Legitimacy in the United States and the European Union	252
10	Securing Subsidiarity: The Institutional Design of Federalism in the United States and Europe	277
11	Federal Governance in the United States and the European Union: A Policy Network Perspective	300
12	Federalism and State Governance in the European Union and the United States: An Institutional Perspective	335
13	Democratic Legitimacy under Conditions of Regulatory Competition: Why Europe differs from the United States	355
14	Citizenship and Federations: Some Preliminary Reflections	377
15	The Constitutions of Institutions	403
16	Beyond Devolution: From Subsidiarily to Mutuality	413
17	European Citizenship: The Relevance of the American Model	427
	Conclusion: The Federal Vision Beyond the Federal State	439
App	Basic Principles for the Allocation of Competence in the United States and the European Union	483
	About the Contributors	505
	Index	515