Development and Federalism: Responses of Federating Units Over CPEC
CPEC is deeply interconnected with federal structural in Pakistan. There is a difference of opinion amongst the scholars and policy makers regarding the impact of CPEC on federalism in Pakistan. This paper is an attempt to analyze liberal framework of federation and its connection with neoliberal development project of CPEC. In neoliberal framework, the decentralization and distribution of resources amongst the federating units and sub-national identities seems complex puzzle. The dominant forces amongst federating units joined same elite class for the protection of their own interest. This elite concentration and bargain model is reciprocal to the fundamental idea of federation. This paper demonstrates that CPEC is sharpening the unevenness amongst the federating units and sub-national identities.
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Federalism, CPEC, Development, Pakistan, Neoliberalism
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(1) Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad
Assistant Professor, Centre for Policy Studies, COMSATS University-Islamabad. He worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, The University of Nottingham United Kin
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APA : Ahmad, M. S. (2019). Development and Federalism: Responses of Federating Units Over CPEC. Global Social Sciences Review, IV(II), 438-445. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).56
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CHICAGO : Ahmad, Muhammad Shakeel. 2019. "Development and Federalism: Responses of Federating Units Over CPEC." Global Social Sciences Review, IV (II): 438-445 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).56
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