Sentences with word «federalism»

Yes, four long years ago, Checker Finn and I were still wedded to the «tight - loose» formula of federalism in education: Uncle Sam should be tighter on the outcomes expected from our schools but much looser on how states and districts achieve those ends.

Section 162 of the 1999 Constitution, with its ten subsections, is a negation of true federalism because of the undue preponderance of power vested in the Central Government with respect to the control of the money in the Federation Account.

On its own part, UYLA, while thanking the Federal Government for initiating the visit, called for true fiscal federalism as well as an increase in derivation benefit to the region from 13 to 50 per cent within every period of five years.

The Anglican Diocese of Calabar on Monday pointed out that the practice of true federalism in Nigeria is the only panacea to Nigeria's multifaceted problems.

Bzdera set the basic frame twenty years ago when he described the anonymous unanimous judgment as a standard high court device for constitutional questions on federalism issues — but the citations that accompany this bold claim bear on the «unanimous» rather than the «anonymous» aspect.

Indeed, such judicial resolution would trample Congress's carefully calibrated process of cooperative federalism where states work in tandem with [the Environmental Protection Agency] to administer the federal Clean Air Act.»

The Yoruba Council of Elders on Thursday suggested fiscal federalism as the way out of the economic recession battling the country.

And it is true that if Justice Kennedy consistently follows his prior libertarian opinions he will vote not so much for federalism as liberty defined as autonomy.

Yet Canada (which has more competitive federalism in education than the United States and has no Ministry of Education in its central government) has climbed into the ranks of advanced nations in academic performance.

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To find out, we asked Michael Doonan, PhD, an assistant professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass., and author of American Federalism in Practice: The Formulation and Implementation of Contemporary Health Policy.

The E.O. covers policies with Federalism implications.

We can see that the debate about federalism continues in America.

A holding that states must march in lockstep with the federal experiment would have implications for other federalism issues, a point likely to be on the minds of the justices.

The blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).

Ultimately, what we are calling for is a long - overdue restructuring of education federalism to establish an effective partnership of the federal, state, and local governments to advance equal access to an excellent education.

The option of multinational federalism finds, in my opinion, two impassable obstacles on its way.

I'm unsure whether, in the U.S., the organization of a two - party system benefits from federalism because the spheres of influence of local an national leaders can remain separate to avoid alienating constituents in one region through support of constituents in another region, or, maybe, because decentralized policymaking allows local parties to work together to elect national leaders.

However, in this case, the question is not the administrative body's jurisdiction under its governing statute; rather, the question is a classic federalism question pitting a regulator's authority on environmental matters under provincial jurisdiction against the federal government's jurisdiction over bankruptcy.

We have also seen competitive federalism work in education at the interstate level.

Our present democratic experience may still be far from the ideal but we must all make concerted efforts to entrench fiscal federalism which is the only way to achieve true nationhood.»

This article provides an introduction to key issues and debates in Canadian federalism by looking through the lens of Atlantic Canada.

Fewer obstacles can be found on the way to constitutional reform when it comes to territorial federalism.

It is democracy that has stalled, not federalism.

«As stated in prior objections, the Subpoena raises serious federalism concerns,» Dubeck wrote.

Rather than this imperial version of Canada where projects of supposedly national importance override minority rights and local concerns, the Supreme Court has endorsed cooperative federalism where the federal and provincial governments work to reconcile differences for the common good.

Gaitskell rejected European federalism as «the end of a thousand years of history» and liable to destroy the Commonwealth.

Grasping the origins and importance of Boko Haram requires investigating this long - standing debate over Nigerian federalism.

The law sailed through both houses of Congress this month with strong bipartisan support, a fact made more remarkable because Republicans and Democrats had been wrangling over the subject for eight years, unable to reach agreement about the proper balance between federalism and accountability.

Crime & Federalism bloggers Norm Pattis and Timothy Sandefur throw down about the Supremes» 5 - 4 ruling in Roper v. Simmons.

Now, we might ask whether the Blaine amendments are simply another example of federalism at work.

Many in the CfS support federalism, and believe both the Scottish and UK parties need to use the opportunity provided by the constitutional hiatus (and Brexit) to, as one says, «put forward a serious proposal for a federal UK that should be directly connected to the economic democracy agenda».

He has been furthermore member of the Spanish Electoral Board (Junta Electoral Central, 2004 - 2008), of the executive committee of the European Consortium of Political Research and of the Comparative Federalism Research Committee (International Political Science Association).

Glenn C. Savage receives funding from the Australian Research Council as part of the «Discovery Early Career Researcher Award» (DECRA) Scheme for his project titled «National schooling reform and the reshaping of Australian federalism».

John Edwards» new job as a global deal maker (see Emily Thornton's piece in BusinessWeek), has significantly underwhelmed the Crime & Federalism blog duo.

I see that Crime & Federalism guest blogger David Giacalone isn't impressed, to say the least, with the New York Bar Association proposal to redefine what kind of work constitutes «pro bono.»

Norm Pattis at Crime and Federalism also writes that Skilling was treated no differently than a common crack dealer.

The Appellants also rebuffed Federalism arguments of this being a health service exclusively in the provincial jurisdiction by stating that there was no legal requirement by the province to provide this type of service.

He doesn't understand how federalism works.

Jennings thinks he is being respectful of federalism when he concedes that «a state should be able to choose to apply for the United for Students grant or not,» but he doesn't seem to grasp that this is the equivalent of saying that states could choose to pay taxes for large programs that other states would get and they would not.

«Cooperative federalism doesn't mean that one state can dictate standards for the rest of the country,» said Pruitt.

But federalism seems to beg for specification, as distinguished, say, from simply adopting as politically desirable decisions by a central government to «decentralize» the creation or implementation of policy.

If federalism caused economic growth we would expect Argentina to be significantly richer than Chile.