Canadian Federalism: Past, Present, and Future

by Michael Burgess (Editor)

The resurgence of interest in federalism in recent years on both sides of the Atlantic has renewed the long-standing debate about the meaning an the relevance of the federal principle. Comparative Federalism and Federation addresses this debate by bringing together theexpertise of a number of internationally renowned scholats to provide a comparative and analytical survey of the study of federalism and federation. In a wide-ranging theoretical and empirical survey, the book investigates both the Anglo-American and European federal traditions. It is divided into three main parts. The first considers the concepts of federalism and federation; the second provides the perspectives necessary for comparitive analysis. This theoetical framework is illustrated in the third section by a number of case studies which look in detail at different 'traditions' of federalism (European, American, Canadian, Australian) and a number of country-specific cases (The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland). Comparative Federalism and Federation provides and timely and valuable analysis of this important political concept for students and researchers of comparative and international politics.

Genres: Political Science, Politics

211 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Abule Racho]

In the two divide sections of this chapter the writer want to investigate how the meaning and represent of federalism and federation have changed in period. He want to show how these concepts have to be at the hands of leading historians, political scientists and actually in the mainstream Anglo-American literature. So as he said in These regard were first identified and discussed by interested observers well over a century ago and our imagine and orderly revise about comparative federalism will therefore examine the important early contributions before centralize upon the same intellectual debate. So with the relate to this issues the author mention it does not at the miss understanding through the belief of the many political scholar who have also disfigure with federalism as part of their own political dialogue in its place the author shall refer to them only in the size to which they have lower in the intellectual debate itself.