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unitary system |
political system that concentrate political authority and power within one central government which is singularly responsible for both of the domestic and foreign activity of the political unit |
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centralization |
concentration of power in a single body usually the principal government |
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European Union |
economic and political union of 27 European states |
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delegated authority |
in a unitary system the transfer of certain powers from the national government to subnational authority |
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decentralization |
process whereby power and authority is taken from the central government and conferred to non-central government(state ,province) |
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devolution |
political system in which the majority of authority is given to regional governments but the power to oversee the , dismiss or entrench these authorities is still held by the central government |
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voter turn out |
Number of voters who attend the polls on election day |
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non reverse matters |
Powers that are given to a region and may not be recalled by the central government |
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non-excepted matters |
Powers that are held by the central government but may be transferred to a regional government at a later date |
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centralize federalism |
process whereby federal government increases its power relative to that of the provinces |
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North American free trade agreement |
agreement in which Canada , the United States and Mexico have opened their markets to each other |
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concurrent |
The sharing of control between provinces and federal levels of government |
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reservation |
occurs when a lieutenant governor puts provincial legislation up for the federal cabinet consideration |
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disallowance |
occurrence when provincial legislation is rejected or vitoed by the federal cabinet |
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Declaratory power |
A federal government's power to take control of any local project if it decides that doing so would be for the greater national good |
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cooperative federalism |
cooperation and coordination of policy between the federal and provincial levels of government |
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executive federalism |
generally conflicted relationship between provinces and the federal government created when provinces try (often successfully) to seize greater atonomy from the federal government which resists such attempts |
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conditional grants |
funds given to the provincial authority's from the federal government which assigns control and conditions on how the monies may be spent . |
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unconditional grants |
payment from the federal government that maybe spent by the provinces in anyway they see fit |
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sovereignty association |
arrangement by which a state or province acquires independence from the federal government but retain strong links to the country,generally in form of economic policy |