POLI 221 Lecture 78: POLI221 Final Exam Key Terms
8 Feb 2017
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Federalism: three pillars of canadian government, legislature, federalism, courts, federalism. Division of powers between the federal and other order of government. No single form of federalism but all share some basic characteristics. Mallory: no such thing as pure federalism: inter-state federalism. Becomes crucial during the period of cooperative federalism: intra-state federalism. Representations of the units of the federation within the national government. Need for regional representation in the senate is an example. If intra-state mechanisms are functional, inter-state federalism works more easily: pendulum of power general area, riker. Schultz argues that it isn"t really a pendulum, it"s more or less stuck in one. Defines federalism as (cid:498)a political organization in which activities of makes final decisions. (cid:499) Basically said that federalism doesn"t mean an equal distribution of power, Part of riker"s continuum of the degree of centralization within states. The most extreme case only one level of authority. Example: france all power is within one form only.
