POLITICAL SCIENCE

Improving Federalism

Improving Federalism

Critical Evaluation

Federalism is a government system in which power is divided between central governing authority and states or provinces. It is a system based upon democratic rule in which power to govern any institution is shared among the national and provincial governments. The division among these two bodies is defined in the constitution. Constitutionally Political orders in federalism are non-centralized. Federalism is the sharing of power between national and local levels of government such as states, provinces, territories, counties, and cities and is thus a system characteristic that creates considerable opportunities for experimentation in environmental politics.

In federalism, ...