Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleAn iron law of nationalism and federation?: A (neo-Diceyian) theory of the necessity of a federal Staatsvolk, and of consociational rescue*.AuthorsO'Leary, BrendanAbstractConsiders theories of nationalism and federalism. Nationalism as the primary principle of political legitimacy of modernity; Definitions of federalism and nationalism; Political philosophy of federalism.SubjectsNATIONALISM; FEDERAL governmentPublicationNations & Nationalism, 2001, Vol 7, Issue 3, p273ISSN1354-5078Publication typeArticleDOI10.1111/1469-8219.00017