New Democratic Federalism for Europe Functional, Overlapping, and Competing Jurisdictions

This innovative book proposes a new institutional arrangement for government to fulfil the needs of its citizens as well as possible. Existing aspects of federalism and direct democracy in Europe are strengthened, and as a result future developments arising in the region are coped with better. In this book Bruno Frey and Reiner Eichenberger propose a new model of federalism which includes new types of governmental units established by citizens from below. These units are called functional, overlapping and competing jurisdictions as they extend over task-specific areas and therefore overlap. They also provide competitive governance via direct and representative democratic institutions, and as jurisdictions they have independent power over taxation policy.Frey, Bruno S. is the author of 'New Democratic Federalism for Europe Functional, Overlapping, and Competing Jurisdictions', published 2004 under ISBN 9781843769019 and ISBN 1843769018.