书目名称 | Managing Interdependencies in Federal Systems |
副标题 | Intergovernmental Co |
编辑 | Johanna Schnabel |
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概述 | Explores how the design of intergovernmental councils motivates participating governments towards reaching joint solutions to shared policy problems.Employs a comparative approach to study formal inte |
丛书名称 | Comparative Territorial Politics |
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描述 | Intergovernmental councils have emerged as the main structures through which the governments of a federation coordinate public policy making. In a globalized and complex world, federal actors are increasingly interdependent. This mutual dependence in the delivery of public services has important implications for the stability of a federal system: policy problems concerning more than one government can destabilize a federation, unless governments coordinate their policies. This book argues that intergovernmental councils enhance federal stability by incentivizing governments to coordinate, which makes them a federal safeguard. By comparing reforms of fiscal and education policy in Australia, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland, this book shows that councils’ effectiveness as one of federalism’s safeguards depends on their institutional design and the interplay with other political institutions and mechanisms. Federal stability is maintained if councils process contentious policy problems,are highly institutionalized, are not dominated by the federal government, and are embedded in a political system that facilitates intergovernmental compromising and consensus-building.. |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | federalism; intergovernmental relations; multilevel governance; pubilc policy-making; comparative politi |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35461-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-35463-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-35461-9Series ISSN 2947-8162 Series E-ISSN 2947-8170 |
issn_series | 2947-8162 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |