{"title":"\"Laboratories of Democracry\" Through Decentralization","authors":"C. Buck","doi":"10.24908/fede.v23i1.15352","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper makes the normative case for decentralized federalism on two primary grounds. First, federalism inculcates a tolerance for diversity by spreading policymaking authority across a wide range of jurisdictions, thereby conciliating ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, and other tensions within the polity. Second, by disaggregating the governmental apparatus into a multitude of component parts, the federal system incentives competition which leads to policy innovation. These points are further refined through the use of a variety of Canadian, American, and international examples. ","PeriodicalId":247232,"journal":{"name":"Federalism-E","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Federalism-E","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24908/fede.v23i1.15352","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper makes the normative case for decentralized federalism on two primary grounds. First, federalism inculcates a tolerance for diversity by spreading policymaking authority across a wide range of jurisdictions, thereby conciliating ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, and other tensions within the polity. Second, by disaggregating the governmental apparatus into a multitude of component parts, the federal system incentives competition which leads to policy innovation. These points are further refined through the use of a variety of Canadian, American, and international examples.