POL 2101 Lecture 14: Week Two - Lecture 4

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2101
• Professor: Andre Lecours

Document Summary

Public policy has become quite complex in federal systems allowing it to be run by both levels of government. There are two forms of inter-governmental relation in the literature - the interstate or the intrastate federalism models. Intra-state federalism is the representation of the units of the federation within the national government through the house of commons and the senate. involves implication from the upper house, the senate. In this model constituent units (provinces) have some sort of representation in the central institutions of the country. The members of the senate can be used to connect within the federal government indirectly. Senators in canada are appointed by the prime minister of canada. In the united states senate each state has two representatives. The elected representative from specific states are part of the federal policy making process. They represent their province in a real way, but they don"t have democratic legitimacy.