New trends & models in federalism

Abstract

Although the word "federalism" is sandwiched in comparative politics, the paradigmatic conceptual analysis of the term boarder on different perspectives and particularly centers on its philosophical underpins in terms of appropriate terminology and classification. Attempts to study federalism constitute a part of comparative politics or political institutions since federalism is not only cross-national but a cross-cultural research. While the study of federalism has in many respects reached an advanced stage today, there nevertheless remains a troubling absence of agreement as to the precise meaning of the concept. This study examined critically, the new trends and models in the concept of federalismin different kind as a system of government in various states and nations of the world. The major objective of this work,however, hasbeen to bring to attention the general new trends in federalism and to outline the simplicity of different forms and explore new trends in federalism as seen by various scholars in the field of political science in relation to federalism.The original intention of this paper was to examine and evaluate how the recent popularity of the new concept of “different kind of federalism” in the general political science literature has affected and influenced current theoretical trends in the study of comparative federalism. Secondary sources were used as major materials in generating data for this work; published books and articles, journal articles, internet articles were consulted for data, documentaries and other secondary sources were also consulted. The research argue that the experience with the unprecedented and unconventional expansion of the new trends in federal concept serves to enrich the theory of federalism in declaring or undeclaring received knowledge about the new trends and models of federal systems the world over.