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Sub-national island jurisdictions (SNIJs) manifest diverse expressions of govern- ance within typically asymmetrical relationships with a much larger state. Dubbed 'federacies' in the literature on federalism, these bilateral systems of self- and shared-rule arise almost exclusively on islands. The jurisdictional powers that island federacies enjoy are principally a result of bilateral negotiations between island political elites and a (usually benign) metropole. This bargain is struck against the backdrop of a particular colonial inheritance, a local 'sub- nationalist' culture, and the varying ambitions of local elites to win jurisdictional powers to advance 'sub-national' territorial interests. At other times, however, island autonomies arise as crafted, deliberate devolutions of central governments eager to exploit islands as 'managed' zones for economic or security-related activity in a globalised economy. In either case sub-national autonomies often show more success and resilience as non-sovereign island jurisdictions than their sovereign island-state counterparts. ; peer-reviewed

De planologische en architectonische ontwikkeling van het Iraanse eiland Kish in de Perzische golf

Kish Island is one of three 'industrial free trade zones' approved by the Majlis (Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly) in August 1993. Kish may be small: just 5 km wide and 17 km long. Still, it is administered semi-autonomously by 'an Authority organized as a company with autonomous legal status, whose capital shall belong to the government' (Law on Administration of Free Trade-Industrial Zones, Article 5). Its very smallness and islandness lets Kish get away with such a departure from fundamentalist theocratic rule. ; peer-reviewed

Island jurisdictions, even more than their mainland counterparts, are gripped by dual and seemingly contradictory pressures for both autonomous self-government, on the one hand, and for political partnership on the other. The need to balance these two sets of pressures is an ever-present fact of life for island communities, whether sovereign or not. ; peer-reviewed

Islands have a unique hold on our imagination as intriguing places where - as Thomas More and Jonathan Swift showed in their fiction - fantastic utopic or dystopic worlds are possible. This book highlights the idiosyncratic forms of governance that occur in places that are both a part of, and apart from, national boundaries.

An obituary for Leslie Kish, research scientist emeritus of the U of Michigan's Instit for Social Research & professor emeritus of its Dept of Sociology. Kish was a member of the group of scientists led by Rensis Likert, who, in the US Dept of Agriculture in the early 1940s, defined much of the early theory & practice of scientific surveys & who left government to found the Michigan Survey Research Center in 1946. Adapted from the source document.