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- Title
Asymmetric decentralization of the administration of public safety in the Canadian federal political system.
- Authors
Hataley, Todd; Leuprecht, Christian
- Abstract
Canada's federal political system has to reconcile differences over the balance between shared rule and self-rule concerning two bedrock principles of the constitutional government: the rule of law and democratic oversight of the exercise of the power of the state to ensure that it is not usurped. The hallmark of the administration of multilevel security governance in Canada is horizontal and vertical differentiation of diverse territorial and non-territorial community values, preferences, interests and values has given rise to the asymmetric decentralization. This article maps the historical and constitutional roots, and then draws on examples in a survey of its institutional structure across three levels of government. It concludes by discussing the governance challenges that shared sovereignty and mismatched jurisdictional authorities pose for the effective and efficient provision of public safety in Canada.
- Subjects
CANADA; DECENTRALIZATION in government; PUBLIC safety; FEDERAL government; SOVEREIGNTY; CANADIAN politics &; government, 1867-; JURISDICTION
- Publication
Canadian Public Administration, 2014, Vol 57, Issue 4, p507
- ISSN
0008-4840
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/capa.12091