
At present there are 24 federations in the world composing a variety of forms and variations, this text provides an analysis of the design and operation of a sample of federations, including the U.S., Australia, Germany, India and Spain.

Countries studied include the United States, Switzerland, Australia, Austria, and Germany as examples of developed industrial societies; India and Malaysia as examples of multilingual and multicultural federations; Belgium and Spain as examples of emerging federal systems that...

As Canadians question the future of their federation and consider changes t