POLS 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Monetary Policy, Socialist Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia, Jervis Bay Territory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 243
• Professor: John Mc Garry

Document Summary

Autonomy occurs within a state i. e. , it does not mean independence. Autonomy can be given to a group (corporate autonomy, e. g. catholic school boards in. Or it can be given to a piece of territory in which a group is in the majority of the population (e. g. quebec, in which francophones are in a majority, or scotland enjoys. This lecture is mainly about territorial" forms of autonomy. Legally yes, but : no implicit right of secession, devolution in a unitary state: the symmetry/asymmetry aspect. If all parts of the state enjoy the same level of self-government, we have symmetric" devolution: the uk, in contrast is an example of asymmetric devolution (see map) Sometimes said that domestic sovereignty resides in the constitution": no implied right of secession, federations: other aspects, generally symmetric and all-state in character, bicameral (with disproportional representation in upper chamber, e. g. u. s. senate, courts act as umpires, federacy.