POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: American Civil War, Canadian Federalism, United Arab States

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Kate Puddister

Document Summary

Distribuion of power based on history: must be shared for a government to funcion. Many states evolved by centralizing power in central government: centralizaion: concentraion of power in a single body, usually the principle government. Lack of desire to share power resulted in the creaion of unitary states. Almost all systems have some power sharing. Consolidaion only possible for some states through power sharing and decentralizaion: decentralizaion: power and authority is taken from the central government and conferred to non-central (state, regional or provincial) governments. Decentralizaion of power led to the creaion of federal states. Confederalism: regional or consituent governments give limited powers to central government. Central government relies on regional governments for authority and legiimacy. European union: sovereign eniies have agreed to surrender certain elements of power to. Limited power sharing and centralizaion (unitary) let end of scale. Greater power sharing an decentralizaion (confederaion) right end of scale.