POLI 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Patriation, Responsible Government, Henri Bourassa

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 321
• Professor: Fillippo Sabetti

Document Summary

2 ways to understand why we focus on issues in terms of public policy. 1) many policy areas generally are not programatic issues but institutional issues. Who has the authority tp do what, becomes a connstitonal issue. 2 ways for relationships of gov to take place 1)competitive 2)collaborative. Who has jurisdiction over what is a long term problem - fed vs provincial. 3 reasons why its important/a constitutional revolution: 1) responsible government is one: Elections don"t always allow ppl to vote for policy - what are examples form absent mandate that tell us that. The reading says leelctions don"t give a mandate but the electoral system allows for the selection of gov, but they don"t decide policy mandate or it"d debatable that they do. Sabetti: struggle between provincial and federal gov - who has a seat in deciding - issue was that proicnail gov struggled to get a seat at the table.