federationalism

Noun

federationalism (uncountable)

1. (uncommon) Tendency or preference towards having a federational structure, a federation, in which distinct bodies are united.
   • The years following 1819 thus witnessed a resurgence of continental federationalism ...1961, James Alexander Robertson, The Hispanic American Historical Review
   • In fact, she regarded this slogan, which was popular at the time, as little else than a reactionary escape. Her political views–her insistence on federationalism as opposed to a national state, on “civic friendship” as the new basis of politics instead of talk of tolerance and granting of special...2015, Liisi Keedus, The Crisis of German Historicism: The Early Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 92