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State, Society, and the Development of Canadian Federalism

Richard SimeonIan RobinsonRoyal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada

出版	University of Toronto Press, 1990
ISBN	08020731909780802073198
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qBKJAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋From Confederation in 1867 to Meech Lake today, the debate on Canadian federalism goes on, the central questions perenially raised: How do we strike a balance between regional and national loyalties and interests? How do we reconcile the sometimes competing values in parliamentary government, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and federalism? How effective is federalism in serving democratic principles? In order to address this debate, we must first understand the forces that have shaped Canadian federalism sing its beginning. To that end the authors have developed a comprehensive theorteical framework that integrates the roles of economic and social forces, political institutions, and political culture. They retrace Canada's early experience with federalism, especially the character of the 1867 Confederation bargain and the experience of the Great Depression in which tensions between new roles of the state and classical federal forms first appeared. Turning to more recent events, they explore the remarkable shift from the pervasive sense of criss, conflict and disarray that marked the decade from 1974 t 1984 into the more harmonious collaborative federalism of the first years of the Mulroney era.