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Sep 28, 2021 · Most Canadians continue to be comfortable with the decentralized nature of their federation, with relatively few seeing the need to transfer powers from their provincial or territorial government to Ottawa (figure 2). More significantly, there has been relatively little change since 2019, including in the year after the onset of the pandemic (i.e. between 2020 and 2021).
- Andrew Parkin
Canadians sharply more dissatisfied with direction of...
- Andrew Parkin
Apr 5, 2010 · First, Canada does lie closer to the decentralized end of the spectrum than the United States—but that distinction is much less sharp and clear than Canadians often think. In some areas—the criminal law for example—states exercise much more influence than Canadian provinces do with massive policy consequences in terms of, to take just one example, the use of the death penalty.
- Richard Simeon, Beryl A. Radin
- 2010
Our latest Confederation of Tomorrow survey of Canadians finds that, despite the scale of the emergency, there has been more continuity than change in Canadian attitudes about the federation. Most importantly, the experience has not upended Canadians’ longstanding preference for a decentralized federation with strong provincial governments.
(Canada 2002; Quebec 2002; Finance Ministers of Western Provinces and Territories 2002) In fiscal terms, Canada is, together with Switzerland, perhaps the world’s most decentralized federation. For example, the federal share of all revenues is about 45 percent – much less than in Australia (69 percent) or the United States (66 percent).
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Conceptualising De/Centralisation in Federations
- Measuring De/Centralisation
- The De/Centralisation Dataset
- Dynamic De/Centralisation Across Federations
- Conclusion
- References
- Further Reading
How powers are distributed between the federal government and the constituent units of a federation, or de/centralisation, is at the heart of federalism. There has recently been renewed interest in studying de/centralisation in federations, with several works addressing conceptualisation, measurement, theorisation, and causal analysis. This piece t...
In essence, federalism is a constitutional device to divide powers between at least two levels of government. How powers are distributed and how the distribution changes over time is thus a, if not the, crucial question in the study of federalism. As Livingston (1956: 10) observed, “That the real key to the nature of the federation is in the distri...
How has de/centralisation in federations been conceptualised? Three questions have attracted most debate. The first question, which touches upon the very essence of federalism, concerns whether federations can be distinguished from unitary systems by merely their degree of de/centralisation. It has been answered in widely divergent ways. Kelsen ([1...
While studying de/centralisation dynamics has always been prominent in the scholarship on federalism, measuring it accurately and validly across federations and over time has long faced methodological and empirical problems. As a result, de/centralisation in federations had not been, until recently, systematically investigated across its different ...
The De/Centralisation Dataset (Dardanelli et al. 2019c) measures legislative and administrative de/centralisation in 22 policy fields and fiscal de/centralisation in five categories in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Switzerland, and the United States for each decade from their foundation to 2010. The DcD distinguishes between static and dynamic...
The DcD data and the publications based on them (Dardanelli et al. 2019a,b) help us map dynamic de/centralisation across federations. The central finding is that most democratic federations have become more centralised over time, though neither uniformly nor invariably so. Centralisation has occurred primarily in the legislative sphere but less so ...
Measuring changes in the distribution of powers between the central government and the constituent governments of a federation over time is crucial to the comparative study of federalism. The De/Centralisation Dataset is a recent attempt to do so across federations and over time. Compared to other datasets, the DcD offers three main advantages: (a)...
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Dardanelli, P. 2019. Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Mapping State Structures – With an Application to Western Europe, 1950-2015. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 49/2: 271-98. Dardanelli, P. and J. Kincaid (eds). 2019. Dynamic De/Centralization in Federations. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 49/1: special issue. Hooghe, L., G. Marks, A. H. Sc...
In the early years of the United States, many American political figures were in favour of invading and annexing Canada, and even pre-approved the admission of the Province of Quebec (previously known as Canada) to the U.S. in the Articles of Confederation in 1777. During the American Revolutionary War, the Americans invaded the Saint Lawrence ...
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Aug 11, 2017 · For the French-Canadians of Canada East, a decentralized federation was the preferred model (Silver 1982). Their political leaders felt that, as a culturally distinct minority community in the new state, French-Canadians would be better protected against a “tyranny of the majority” with extensive, constitutionally specified, political autonomy.
