TY - BOOK AU - Ghai,Yash P. AU - Woodman,Sophia TI - Practising self-government: a comparative study of autonomous regions T2 - The law in context series SN - 9781107018587 (hardback) PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge Universiy Press KW - Autonomy KW - Case studies KW - Self-determination, National N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -