PAP 2300 Lecture Notes - Subsidized Housing, Comptroller, Environmental Protection
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Identify and explain the role and functions of the major institutions in the canadian political and administrative systems. Identify and explain the main differences between an operating department and a crown corporation. 1: relationship between politics and economists, shifts the way the economy is run, believes in the market (ex. Russia: socialist, state controls everything: about the individual and the freedom to choose, key idea: private property rights, state can help acquire property (ex. 1: shifts the way the state is structured, unitary system: ex. Federal system: one central government that gives power to local government, municipal has no powers given by constitution, federal system (federalism): ex. Us, nigeria, canada: 2 almost equal governments, powers enshrined in constitution, activities divided between regional/provincial and central/federal government, citizens owe allegiance to both (use both so vote for both, affects the way institutions are set up. Britain, nz, australia: executive and legislative are fused (ex.