POLI 2052 Study Guide - James Mcculloch, Aaron Ogden, National Labor Relations Board
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Let"s start with a few definitions about political systems. Federalism is a political or government system in which sovereignty (authority over a geographic area) is formally divided across a central governing authority and other political units (such as states, provinces, or localities). In a federalist system, power to govern is shared across multiple levels of government (e. g. , national, state, and local levels of government). Some examples of federalist governments are the united states, argentina, australia, brazil, Canada, iraq, germany, india, malaysia, mexico, nigeria, and russia. Most nations are not federal nations; most nations have unitary government, with one relatively strong central government as the authority, and subnational units have only powers given to them by the national / central government. A third type of system is a confederacy or confederation. Examples of confederacies include the united states under the articles of confederation; the confederate states of america; the. Iroquois confederacy; the state union of serbia and montenegro (from 2003-2006, formerly.
