Hausteiner EM (2026)
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2026
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edited Volumes: The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power
Pages Range: 479–490
ISBN: 9780191976032
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192873170.013.0036
Due to their plurality and the institutionally complex configuration of ‘the people’, federal political orders offer a challenging testing ground for questions of constituent power—particularly in moments of fundamental re-constitution. But is it useful to differentiate between varieties of federalism to understand federal re-constituent power? The chapter argues that federal polities, as particularly dynamic political orders, tend to rely on re-constituent power in situations of fundamental transformation—particularly when it comes to questions of expansion or contraction. However, processes of re-constitution differ fundamentally between different varieties of federalism, especially between centrifugal and centripetal federal constellations. To demonstrate this, the chapter analyses US federalism as a case of centripetal federalism.
APA:
Hausteiner, E.M. (2026). Varieties of Federalism and Re-Constituent Power. In The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power. (pp. 479–490). Oxford University Press.
MLA:
Hausteiner, Eva Marlene. "Varieties of Federalism and Re-Constituent Power." The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power. Oxford University Press, 2026. 479–490.
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