POLS 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Direct Election, Unanimous Consent, Fiscal Imbalance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Carol Dauda

Document Summary

Unexpected interpretations: how will courts over the years interpret the division of powers as it applies to concrete cases. Division of powers administrative: responsibility for administering a law usually sits with the level of state that has made the law, reflected in the constitutions of australia, canada, and the us. It makes sense for law to be administered at the sub-national level, even though it was made by the national legislature. Division of powers fiscal federalism: the national state in a confederal system depends on the funds the sub- national states are willing to grant it. In theory, wealthier provinces could decide to share some of their revenue with the less favoured provinces. In canada, the federal government makes several transfers to provinces, but the largest two consists of transfers to correct the vertical fiscal imbalance and transfers to address the horizontal fiscal imbalance (equalization grants) In some jurisdictions such as, australia, austria, and germany, the goal is full equalization.