| | William Riker published on federalism over a long period starting with his 1955 APSR article 'The Senate and American ... |
 | | Riker's alternative is, of course, to characterize federalism as a rational bargain between prospective national leaders and officials of constituent governments who come together for the purpose of creating a larger territory so as better to facilitate the levying of taxes and the raising of armies (Riker 1964, Chapter 1). |
| | Riker made two bold claims: that Australian federation was precipitated by German, French and Japanese imperialism in East Asia and the Pacific, and that because these threats were relatively weak, it was necessary only to create a relatively peripheralized federation that reflected the strength of provincial as opposed to national loyalties. |
| | Riker was also over eager to include in his federal taxonomy all those states that were labeled federal and had come into being in the context of external threat, even when, as in the case of India they failed to meet the conditions of his own definition of federalism. |
| cniss.wustl.edu /Rikerpapers/mckaypaper.html (8106 words) |
