POLI 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Total War, Pension, Military Intelligence

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 371
• Professor: Christa Scholtz

Document Summary

Poli 371: lecture 8: challenges to decentralized federalism: the welfare state and the federal spending. Development of the welfare state not just one thing, collection of policies (unemployment insurance, pension, etc. ) all address questions of underlying social equity/welfare spreading risk across citizens, regions, govts. what should we be looking for = decentralization. *war* challenges of fighting total war, world war = important moment in many ctrw --> centralization. The depression hits hard in the agricultural parts of econ --> us. Ab --> oil, sa --> before oil: provinces are bankrupt challenge (human) massive relief issues, massive unemployment. W = rise of populized agrarian movements --> ccf, precursor to ndp growing political pressure from the l to address the social welfare problems that is the great. Depression creates demand for a response, and in the us you have fdr"s response legislation = pillars of am. welfare state.