E-Book release Published on 10.01.2023

E-Book release "Teaching Federalism ? Multidimensional Approaches"


The co-director of the institute, Professor Eva Maria Belser, and the academic head of the International Research and Consultancy Centre, Dr. Soeren Keil, have both published in the E-Book Teaching Federalism – Multidimensional Approaches. Prof. Eva Maria Belser wrote the chapter "Secession in federal systems: voice versus exit" and Dr. Soeren Keil wrote the chapter "Federalism and conflict resolution: mixed success?”.

Teaching Federalism presents innovative ideas for teaching a wide variety of key concepts of federalism and federal-country cases. Each chapter introduces a topic, explains its place in federalism research, and provides learning objectives, pedagogical tools, and questions for class discussions, student essays, and examinations. Evaluation and reading suggestions are included as well.

The book covers twenty substantive facets of federalism important for understanding contemporary issues of federalism and federation, such as power distribution, second chambers, high courts, intergovernmental relations, fiscal federalism, multinational federalism, conflict resolution, indigenous peoples, gendered federalism, and secession. Also included are case-study examples for teaching about federalism in Germany, India, Nigeria, Switzerland, and the United States.