Change and Continuity in Multinational Democracies : Theoretical and Methodological Reflections on Canadian Federalism
Federal principles, if reduced to fundamental attributes, are concerned with the combination of self-rule and shared-rule. The actual equilibrium of self- and sharedrule, however, is a complex and contingent question, and scholars of federalism generally adopt various sets of criteria in which to discern, first, what the balance actually is, through an examination of institutional configurations, and second, what the balance ought to be, through some considerations around questions of justice and stability. For the purposes of this paper, and to simplify matters somewhat, I adopt a perspective employed by Michael Burgess, among others, which makes a conceptual distinction between federations and federalism. Briefly, we can refer to federations as the institutional expression, usually through constitutional terms, of federalism, which is an idea or norm about the goal of the political system to protect and sustain unity and diversity as an organizing principle - contributing to ensure the existence, integrity and autonomy of the constituent parties. A state can be more or less federal within static and unchanging markers of federation. We can thus speak of the extent to which federalization has taken hold in particular historical and spatial contexts
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2009
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Authors: | Iacovino, Raffaele |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Kanada | Canada | Multinationales Unternehmen | Transnational corporation | Demokratie | Democracy | Föderalismus | Federalism |
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