Towards the end of the Second World War, there were only four functioning federations in the world ? the United States, Switzerland, Canada and Australia. Today, twenty-four countries in the world follow the federal form of government. Varieties of Federal Governance presents a global analytical survey of contemporary federations. The book highlights distinctive features and contemporary issues in the typology of major federal systems in terms of presidential federations (USA, Switzerland, Brazil, Russia, Pakistan), Commonwealth parliamentary federations (Canada, Australia, India, Malaysia, South Africa), Non-Commonwealth parliamentary federations in Afro-Asia (Ethiopia, Nepal), and European parliamentary federations (Germany, Belgium, Spain). The book also includes analyses of pre-federal devolutionary models in the UK and Sri Lanka, and supranational federative tendencies in the European Union. This book will serve as a useful reference book for graduate students and academic researchers. Table of Contents List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Rekha Saxena I. Theoretical and Comparative Dimensions 1. Federalism: An Alternative Category in Political Thought? 2. Governance of Capital Cities in Federal Countries: Comparative Perspectives II. Presidential Federal Systems 3. Political Coercion and Administrative Cooperation in U.S. Intergovernmental Relations 4. What Makes the Swiss Multicultural Federalism Work 5. Local Governments in the Brazilian Federation 6. Russian Federalism: Does it Work? 7. Federalism in Pakistan III. Commonwealth Parliamentary Federations 8. Constitutional Normalization in Canada: The Significance of Failure of the Charlo