Practising self-government : a comparative study of autonomous regions - Ghai, Yash P., 1938-; Woodman, Sophia (Cambridge : Cambridge Universiy Press, 2013)
Introduction: Nature and origins of autonomy / Yash Ghai -- Seeking autonomy in a decentralised federation : the case of Quebec / Richard Simeon and Luc Turgeon -- Prosperity and happiness through autonomy : the self-government of the Aland Islands in Finland / Markku Suksi -- Puerto Rico : autonomy or colonial subordination? / Efren Rivera-Ramos -- Foundations and institutions of South-Tyrol's autonomy in Italy / Oskar Peterlini -- Kashmir : the vanishing autonomy / Jill Cottrell -- Autonomies of scale : precarious self-government on Norfolk Island / Helen Irving -- The autonomy of Catalonia : the unending search for a place within pluralist Spain / Carlos Flores Juberias -- Zanzibar in Tanzania : from sovereign to autonomy? / Yash Ghai -- Defective democracy in a failed state? : bridging constitutional design, politics and ethnic division in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Josef Marko -- Hong Kong's autonomy : dialects of powers and institutions / Yash Ghai -- The autonomy of devolved Scotland / Chris Himsworth -- Macau : transformation of a historic autonomy / Paulo Cardinal -- Autonomy and conflict resolution in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea / Anthony J. Regan -- Comparative perspectives on institutional frameworks for autonomy / Sophia Woodman and Yash Ghai.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Autonomy -- Case studies; Self-determination, National -- Case studies