Federalism and Social Change

Health care, federalism and the new Social Union.

The Social Union framework agreement and the Health Accord provide examples of the close relationship that exists between federalism and the delivery of health care. These recent agreements represent a move from a federal-unilateral style of federalism to a more collaborative model. This shift will potentially affect federal funding for health care, interpretation of the Canada Health Act and t...

Cost-benefit federalism: reconciling collective action federalism and libertarian federalism in the Obamacare litigation and beyond.

Justice Brennan and Federalism

Danforth, Retroactivity, and Federalism

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426 I. A Very Brief Overview of Judicial Federalism in the Context of Criminal Process.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 II. Retroactivity Doctrine as Applied to Federal Constitutional New Rules.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Formal Theory and Federalism

The recent onrush of formal models of federalism was prompted by political science s renewed interest in the operation of federal systems. Formal theory is a microfoundational approach to comparative theoretical research, where political phenomena are explained in terms of strategic agents responding to an incentive environment. When appropriately written, formal (mathematical) structure lays b...