POLC54H3 Chapter : Week9Summaries

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Revised summary for week 9, november 9 readings. Federalism, political parties, and the burden of national unity: still making. Federalism do the heavy lifting: bakvis & b. tanguay. Chapter 6 seeks to explore the role of political parties in the question of national unity. Exploring the questions of whether there is a possibility of parties playing a more active role in terms of the national unity, what are reasonable expectations and if the development of political parties in the. The main function they serve is that of representation, but they are also a candiate pool to those who will end up making decisions, and setting the policy agenda. For instance, the few seats won in quebec all went to the cabinet for regional representation, but had they gotten more candidates elected in the region it is unlikely that the same would have been picked. In canada there are three aspects to parties-based theory of federalism.

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