Canadian Federalism: Canadian Federalism

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).

• CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; PART I: SOCIO-ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND PROCESSES OF CANADIAN FEDERALISM; 1. : CANADIAN FEDERALISM: PERFORMANCE, EFFECTIVENESS, AND LEGITIMACY, BY HERMAN BAKVIS AND GRACE SKOGSTAD; 2. : THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REGIONALISM AND FEDERALISM, BY GARTH STEVENSON; 3. : QUEBEC AND THE CANADIAN FEDERATION, BY DAVID CAMERON; 4. : PARLIAMENTARY CANADA AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL CANADA: EXPLORING THE TENSIONS, BY RICHARD SIMEON AND AMY NUGENT; 5. : THE COURTS, THE CONSTITUTION, AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION, BY GERALD BAIER; 6. : FEDERALISM, POLITICAL PARTIES, AND THE BURDEN OF NATIONAL UNITY: STILL MAKING FEDERALISM DO THE HEAVY LIFTING?, BY HERMAN BAKVIS AND A. BRIAN TANGUAY; PART II: THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC UNION; 7. : FISCAL FEDERALISM: MAINTAINING A BALANCE, BY DOUGLAS M. BROWN; 8. : THE THREE FEDERALISMS REVISITED: SOCIAL POLICY AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL DECISION-MAKING, BY KEITH G. BANTING; 9. : HEALTH CARE, BY ANTONIA MAIONI; 10. : 'NO-LATERALISM': PARADOXES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE POLICY IN THE CANADIAN FEDERATION, BY MARTHA FRIENDLY AND LINDA A. WHITE; 11. : INTERNATIONAL TRADE POLICY AND THE EVOLUTION OF CANADIAN FEDERALISM, BY GRACE SKOGSTAD; 12. : FEDERALISM AND ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT: SKILLS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE FACE OF GLOBALIZATION, BY RODNEY HADDOW; 13. : FEDERALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY, BY MARK WINFIELD AND DOUGLAS MACDONALD; 14. : REMAKING IMMIGRATION: ASYMMETRIC DECENTRALIZATION AND CANADIAN FEDERALISM, BY KEITH G. BANTING; PART III: RE-IMAGINING THE FEDERATION; 15. : CANADIAN FEDERALISM AND THE EMERGING MOSAIC OF ABORIGINAL MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE, BY MARTIN PAPILLON; 16. : THE URBAN AGENDA, BY ANDREW SANCTON; 17. : DEMOCRATIZING EXECUTIVE FEDERALISM: THE ROLE OF NONGOVERNMENTAL ACTORS IN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS, JULIE SIMMONS; 18. : CONCLUSION: TAKING STOCK OF CANADIAN FEDERALISM, BY GRACE SKOGSTAD AND HERMAN BAKVIS

"The strengths are clearly in the broad overview of topics and the level of depth achieved in the various areas. The writing is readily accessible to students. . . . I strongly recommend this book." --Robert F. Jonasson, Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario"An excellent examination of the contemporary state of federalism in Canada. . . . I look forward to reading and using the third edition." --Cheryl Collier, University of Windsor