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What is the Future of the Federation?
Author(s) -
Galligan Brian
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01224.x
Subject(s) - federalism , demise , internationalism (politics) , sovereignty , political science , politics , political economy , dual federalism , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , federal state , public administration , law , economic history , sociology , economics , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
Federalism has proved enduring in Australia, despite predictions of its imminent demise. Yet new challenges of internationalism and social movements are cutting across old political boundaries and eroding the sovereign nation state. This article, which draws on ideas developed at length in my recent book A Federal Republic: Australia's Constitutional System of Government (Cambridge University Press, 1995), argues that the characteristics of federalism may prove surprisingly compatible with social and international trends.