Canadian Federalism

Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy
Herausgeber: Bakvis, Herman; Skogstad, Grace

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Produktbeschreibung

Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy, third edition, offers 18 original essays that critically exam the institutions, processes, and policy outcomes of Canadian federalism. Contributed by prominent Canadian political scientists, this collection documents how Canadian intergovernmental relations have evolved in response to key issues-including fiscal deficits, health care and environmental policies-and also evaluates the federal system's ability to meet these challenges.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780195439793
• ISBN-10: 0195439791
• Artikelnr.: 37257634

Autorenporträt

Herman Bakvis has been a professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria since 2005. Prior to that, he spent 26 years at Dalhousie University in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Administration. He has co-authored two OUP Canada titles: the first and second edition of Canadian Federalism (OUP Canada 2001, 2007) and Contested Federalism (OUP Canada 2008). Grace Skogstad is a professor at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She is the former president of the Canadian Political Science Association and has written and contributed to a number of texts, including The Common Agricultural Policy (Routledge 2009), Internationalization and Canadian Agriculture (UTP 2008), and the first and second edition of Canadian Federalism (OUP Canada 2001, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
Preface
Part I: Socio-Economic Foundations, Institutions, and Processes of Canadian Federalism
Part II: The Social and Economic Union
Part III: Re-imagining the Federation