Selected Bibliography on Federalism

(Updated April 11, 2008)

What is Federalism? Why Federalism?

Burgess, Michael. Comparative Federalism Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, 2006, 372 pp.

Elazar, Daniel J. "Contrasting Unitary and Federal Systems" (1997) 18:3 International Political Science Review 327-351.

Karmis, Dimitrios & Wayne Norman, eds. Theories of Federalism: A Reader. New York: Palgrave, 2005, 352 pp.

Canadian Federalism (General)

Bakvis, Herman & Grace Skogstad, eds. Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy. Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 2008, 408 pp.

Banting, Keith et al. Open Federalism: Interpretations, Significance. Kingston: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, 2006, 86 pp.

Brouillet, Eugénie. La Négation de la Nation: L'identité culturelle québécoise et le fédéralisme canadien. Sillery, Québec: Septentrion, 2005, 481 pp.

Gagnon, Alain-G. Le fédéralisme canadien contemporain: fondements, traditions, institutions. Montreal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2006, 559 pp.

Meekison, J. Peter, Hamish Telford & Harvey Lazar, eds. Canada: The State of the Federation 2002: Reconsidering the Institutions of Canadian Federalism. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004, 528 pp.

Leuprecht, Christian & John Meisel, eds. The Federal Idea: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Watts. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, forthcoming 2008.

Montpetit, Eric. Le Fédéralisme d'ouverture: La recherche d'une légitimité canadienne au Québec. Sillery, Québec: Septentrion, 2007, 129 pp.

Peach, Ian, ed. Constructing Tomorrow's Federalism. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2007, 220 pp.

Simeon, Richard. Federal-Provincial Diplomacy: The Making of Recent Policy in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 342 pp.

Smiley, Donald V. & Ronald L. Watts. Intrastate Federalism in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985, 170 pp.

Taylor, Charles. Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993, 228 pp.

Federalism, the Canadian Constitution & the Courts

Baier, Gerald. Courts and Federalism: Judicial Doctrine in the United States, Australia and Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006, 224 pp.

Gaudreault-Desbiens, Jean-François. "La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés et le fédéralisme: quelques remarques sur les vingt premières années d'une relation ambiguë" (2003) Revue du Barreau 271-310.

Hogg, Peter & Wade Wright. "Canadian Federalism, the Privy Council and the Supreme Court: Reflections on the Debate about Canadian Federalism" (2005) 38(2) U.B.C. Law Rev. 329.

Leclair, Jean. "The Supreme Court of Canada's Understanding of Federalism: Efficiency at the Expense of Diversity" (2003) 28 Queen's L.J. 411.

MacKay, A. Wayne. "The Supreme Court of Canada and Federalism: Does \ Should Anyone Care Anymore?" (2001) 80 Canadian Bar Review 241.

Saywell, John T. The Lawmakers: Judicial Power and the Shaping of Canadian Federalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, 432 pp.

Fiscal Federalism

Boadway, Robin. "Intergovernmental Redistributive Transfers: Efficiency and Equity" in Ehtisham Ahmad & Giorgio Brosio, eds. Handbook of Fiscal Federalism. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006, 355-380.

Choudhry, Sujit, Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens, & Lorne Sossin, eds. Dilemmas of Solidarity: Rethinking Redistribution in the Canadian Federation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 224 pp.

Courchene, Thomas & Christian Leuprecht, eds. Canada: The State of the Federation 2006. Fiscal Federalism and The Future of Canada (Montréal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, forthcoming 2007).

Lazar, Harvey, ed. Canadian Fiscal Arrangements: What Works, What Might Work Better. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, 288 pp.

Policy Options Politiques. Equalization and the Federal Spending Power. Montréal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, Vol. 28, No. 3, March 2007, 11-57.

Policy Options Politiques. The Fiscal Imbalance. Montréal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, Vol. 27, No. 7, September 2006, 84 pp.

National Unity

Canadian Journal of Law andJurisprudence, Special Issue on Secession, Vol. XIII, No. 2, July 2000, 262 pp.

Courchene, Thomas J. The Changing Nature of Québec-Canada Relations: From the 1980 Referendum to the Summit of the Canadas. IRPP Working Paper 2004-08, September 2004, 33 pp.

Gagnon Alain-G. & Raffaele Iacovino. Federalism, Citizenship and Québec: Debating Multinationalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 228 pp.

Palard Jacques, Alain G. Gagnon & Bernard Gagnon, eds. Diversité et identités au Québec et dans les régions d'Europe. Laval-Bruxelles, Les Presses Université de Laval - P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2006.

Pratte, André, directeur,  Reconquérir le Canada : un nouveau projet pour la nation québécoise, Montréal, Éditions Voix parallèles, 2007

Murphy, Michael, ed. Canada: The State of the Federation 2005. Québec and Canada in the New Century: New Dynamics, New Opportunities. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007, 350 pp.

Tomblin, Stephen G. Ottawa and the Outer Provinces: The Challenge of Regional Integration in Canada. Toronto: James Lorimer, 1995, 214 pp.

Comparative Federalism

Amoretti, Ugo & Nancy Bermeo. Federalism and Territorial Cleavages. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2004, 512 pp.

Forum of Federations. Global Dialogue Book Series. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press:

• Volume 1: Kincaid, John & G. Alan Tarr, eds. Constitutional Origins, Structure and Change in Federal Countries. 2005, 472 pp.
• Volume 2: Majeed, Akhtar, Ronald L. Watts & Douglas M. Brown, eds. Distribution of Powers and Responsibilities in Federal Countries. 2006, 384 pp.
• Volume 3: Le Roy, Katy & Cheryl Saunders, eds. Legislative, Executive and Judicial Governance in Federal Countries. 2006, 403 pp.

Forum of Federations. Global Dialogue Booklet Series. Blindenbacher, Raoul & Ostien Karos, Abigail, eds. Gatineau, Québec: Imprimerie Gauvin:

• Volume 1: Dialogues on Constitutional Origins, Structure and Change in Federal Countries. 2005, 80 pp.
• Volume 2: Dialogues on Distribution of Powers and Responsibilities in Federal Countries. 2005, 68 pp.
• Volume 3: Dialogues on Legislative, Executive and Judicial Governance in Federal Countries. 2006, 68 pp.
• Volume 4: Dialogues on the Practice of Fiscal Federalism: Comparative Perspectives. 2006, 62 pp.
• Volume 5: Dialogues on Foreign Relations in Federal Countries. 2007, 56 pp.
• Volume 6: Dialogues on Local Government and Metropolitan Regions in Federal Countries. Forthcoming 2007, 56 pp.

Forum of Federations. Handbook of Federal Countries, 2005. Griffiths, Ann L., ed. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, 488 pp.

Hueglin, Thomas O. & Alan Fenna. Comparative Federalism: A Systematic Inquiry. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005, 390 pp.

Shah, Anwar & Robin Boadway, eds. Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2007, 624 pp.

Taylor, Gregory. Characterisation in Federations: Six Countries Compared. New York: Springer Publishing, 2006, 183 pp.

Watts, Ronald L. The Spending Power in Federal Systems: A Comparative Study. Kingston: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, 1999, 89 pp.