Austrian Federalism: History–Properties–Change
In comparative research on federations, Austria ranks among the group of countries which “describe themselves as federations while being so centrally dominated in design and practice as to be little short of unitary states.” 1 It is first and foremost the remarkable power asymmetry between the two h...
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