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Diversity drives India’s resurgence

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs, in Amritsar. A member of the Congress Party, he is India’s first Sikh Prime Minister. India’s diversity and its history as the birthplace of many religions also gave India three Muslim presidents, as well as many Hindu presidents and one who was a Sikh. India’s system thrives on diversity and pragmatic intergovernmental relations – two themes of the 4th International Conference on Federalism, hosted by the Government of India in New Delhi, November 5–7, 2007.

Federations: Volume 7, Number 1, october/november 2007

News

• Belgium: Social security brings Belgians to brink by Ricardo Gutiérrez and Bénédicte Vaes
• Congo-Kinshasa: Leaning toward federalism by Thomas Turner
• Venezuela: Decline of federalism by Christi Rangel Guerrero
• United States: Supreme Court shifts to centre in constitutional rulings by G. Alan Tarr
• Germany: Länder to control own taxes? by Felix Knüpling

Special Section- unity in diversity

• Introduction by Rod Macdonell
  India: Cajoling and compromise drive a multi-party system by Ash Narain Roy
  India: Restructuring the centre-state relationship by Gurpreet Mahajan
  India: Extreme diversity makes pluralism imperative by Akhtar Majeed
  Nigeria: Federal framework dampens ethnic conflicts by Isawa Elaigwu
  Switzerland: Cantons bear brunt of nation’s multilingualism by Malcolm MacLaren
  Ethiopia: Constitution protects diversity by Mehari Taddele Maru
  Italy: Taking the slow boat to federalism by Francesco Palermo and Jens Woelk
  Spain: Regions gain power by Robert Agranoff

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What India can show the world by George Anderson