tenative, since there remain questions about transparency and soft budget constraints (Plekhanov 2006). We show federalism at … allocations and spending requirements. Supportive of the conclusion in Chebankova (2008), the term adaptive federalism applies to …

subsequently applied to five case studies of regional development policy: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The book …

places such as Canada, the United States, and the European Union. In Policy Governance in Multi-level Systems, Charles Conteh …With an emphasis on Canada's controversial but resilient regional economic policy, Conteh focuses his study on four … agencies - the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Western Economic Diversification Canada, FedNor, and FedDev - and their …