caa a22 4500 606210180 CHVBK 20210128101032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10101-014-0155-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10101-014-0155-4 The institutional and economic foundations of regional proto-federations [Elektronische Daten] [Emmanouil Economou, Nicholas Kyriazis, Theodore Metaxas] In the present paper we analyse the ancient Greek regional proto-federations of free-democratic city-states. We examine their political institutions and policies like common defence, representative federal bodies such as popular assemblies, parliament, state and regional organization, federal finance ministers as well as their economic institutions: common currency, federal budget and federal revenues. We address in more detail the case of the Aetolian League, or Federation, comparing it with some of today's federal states and the European Union and conclude that in some respects, the proto-federation was more advanced than the EU, and thus can serve as a benchmark in addressing current European integration issues. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Federations nationallicence Institutional nationallicence Political and regional organisation nationallicence Economic policy nationallicence EU integration nationallicence Economou Emmanouil Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, Korai 43, PC: 383 33, Vólos, Thessaly, Greece aut Kyriazis Nicholas Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, Korai 43, PC: 383 33, Vólos, Thessaly, Greece aut Metaxas Theodore Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, Korai 43, PC: 383 33, Vólos, Thessaly, Greece aut Economics of Governance Springer Berlin Heidelberg 16/3(2015-08-01), 251-271 1435-6104 16:3<251 2015 16 10101 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10101-014-0155-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10101-014-0155-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Economou Emmanouil Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, Korai 43, PC: 383 33, Vólos, Thessaly, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kyriazis Nicholas Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, Korai 43, PC: 383 33, Vólos, Thessaly, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Metaxas Theodore Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, Korai 43, PC: 383 33, Vólos, Thessaly, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Economics of Governance Springer Berlin Heidelberg 16/3(2015-08-01), 251-271 1435-6104 16:3<251 2015 16 10101