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Introduction: Multinational Federalism: Questions and Queries

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Multinational Federalism

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Contributions gathered in this volume were for the most part presented at the international workshop on multinational federalism, held at Université du Québec, Montréal, 25–27 September 2009. This introduction serves to prepare the reader for a long list of questions that could be raised concerning the topic of multinational federalism, all of which are discussed by the authors.

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Seymour, M., Gagnon, AG. (2012). Introduction: Multinational Federalism: Questions and Queries. In: Seymour, M., Gagnon, AG. (eds) Multinational Federalism. The Comparative Territorial Politics series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016744_1

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