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Federalism has traditionally divided scholars as a method of government. Harold Laski in his days at the London School of Economics believed that ‘federalism was dead’ and William Livingston argued in 1956 that federalism was only meaningful if the various diversities in a society, such as ethnic, cultural and language differences, could be ‘territorially grouped’.1 William Riker on the other hand turned against federalism in the 1960s — having been formerly a champion of it — since he believed it blocked the civil rights movement and equal opportunity in the US.2 Now that totalitarian socialism is dead federalism may be workable and enduring for many plural societies based on diverse cultural and ethnic groups.
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W.H. Riker, Federalism, Origin, Operation, Significance (Boston: Little, Brown, 1964), Chapter 6 passim.
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Woldring, K. (1996). Federal Aspects of the New South African Constitution: Prospects for Regional Integration. In: Rich, P.B. (eds) Reaction and Renewal in South Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24772-1_11
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