Managing Interdependencies in Federal Systems: Intergovernmental Councils and the Making of Public Policy (Comparative Territorial Politics)

Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Tables
Chapter 1: The Purpose of Intergovernmental Councils
	How and Why Governments Interact
	The Dangers of Centralization
	Responses to Centralization
	Dual and Cooperative Federalism
	Intergovernmental Councils in Western Federations
	Structure of the Book
	References
Chapter 2: The Dynamic Stability of Federal Systems
	Federalism’s Dilemmas
	Disruptive Unilateralism
	References
Chapter 3: The Intergovernmental Safeguard: Principles of Design
	Coordinating Public Policy
	Capacity to Process Federally Salient Policy Problems
	Level of Institutionalization
	Bindingness of Outputs
	Dominance of the Federal Government
	Help From Outside
	References
Chapter 4: Making Fiscal Policy
	Australia’s Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations
		Flaws in the Transfer System
		A Reform Agenda Driven by the Federal Government
		The New Framework for Federal Financial Relations
		Imposing Reform
		Weak Safeguards
	Canada’s Social Union Framework Agreement
		Social Policy and the Federal Spending Power
		The Ad Hocery of Social Policy Renewal
		Formalizing Canada’s Social Union
		Death of an Agreement
		Weak Safeguards
	Germany’s Constitutional Debt Brake
		Fiscal Indiscipline of the Länder
		Coordinating Fiscal Responsibility
		A Constitutional Debt Brake
		A Collaborative Approach to Fiscal Discipline
		Strong Safeguards
	Switzerland’s Corporate Tax Reform III
		The Corporate Tax System Under Pressure
		Influencing Federal Decision-Making
		The Federal Law on Corporate Taxes
		A Collaborative Approach to Corporate Taxation
		Strong Safeguards
	Intergovernmental Councils and The Coordination of Fiscal Policy
	References
		Primary Sources
		Literature
Chapter 5: Reforming Education
	The Australian Curriculum
		Seeking Consistency of School Curriculums
		Imposing a National Curriculum
		A National Curriculum Binding for the States
		Federal Influence on State Education
		Weak Safeguards
	Funding of Official Languages and Postsecondary Education in Canada
		Funding Issues in Education Policy
		Councils as Supporting Actors
		Conditional Grants and Federal Programs
		Federal Unilateralism at its Best
		Weak Safeguards
	National Education Standards in Germany
		Questioning the Quality of Education
		Coordinating Standards and Assessments
		Finding the Lowest Common Denominator
		Keeping the Federal Government Away
		Strong Safeguards
	HarmoS in Switzerland
		Pressures to Harmonize Education
		Intercantonal Collaboration and National Reform
		National Framework and Regional Curriculums
		Containing Federal Encroachment
		Strong Safeguards
	Intergovernmental Councils and the Coordination of Education Policy
	References
		Primary Sources
		Literature
Chapter 6: The Intergovernmental Safeguard: Taking Stock
	Council Design
	Institutions and Mechanisms Outside the Council System
		Party System and Government Congruence
		External Pressure
		Ideas
		Constituent Units’ Participation in Federal Decision-Making
		Federal Spending Power
	Interaction of Councils
	Council Systems and Federal Stability
	References
Chapter 7: Policy Making under Federal Influence
	Federal Unilateralism and the Centralization of Power
	Bulwarks against Centralization?
	Horizontal Coordination
	Dual and Cooperative Federalism
	The Way Forward
	References
Index