A comparative analysis of what prevents governments in Canada from working together on today's major policy challenges.
Most countries, developed and developing, are fiscally decentralized with regional and local governments of varying importance. In many of these countries, some of these sub-national governments differ substantially from others in terms of wealth, ethnic, religious, or linguisti…
"Through a series of case studies, the countries of Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Russia, Spain and Switzerland are examined with an eye to how their public finances are structured and how these arrangements act to pr…
Recognizing that Canada is facing a renewed and potentially disastrous constitutional impasse, the Business Council on National Issues has commissioned the papers in this book to provide a fresh analysis of our difficult constitutional problems.
Explores and examines the questions that have arisen in the debate over Quebec's sovereignty and the larger issues of sovereignty and autonomy, in general, that may exist in other potentially separatist regions.