Federalism and the Evolving Cross-Border Role of Provincial, State, and Municipal Governments
| Date | 01 June 2005 |
| Author | Earl H. Fry |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200506000216 |
| Published date | 01 June 2005 |
| Subject Matter | Management & Institutions |
Earl
H. Fry
Federalism and the
evolving
cross-border
role of
provincial,
state, and municipal
governments
THE
EVOLUTION
OF A
MODERN BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP
In
his introduction to the first American Assembly volume dealing with
Canada-US relations, John Sloan Dickey emphasized that "this book aims
at a better understanding of the relations in time, place, and human affairs
that add up to the phrase each of us uses with such unconscious ease: 'the
United States and Canada,' or vice versa."1 Nevertheless, the coverage
of
the
bilateral
relationship in this excellent volume is dominated by the decisions
made and actions taken by the representatives of the national governments
in Ottawa and Washington, DC. The second volume, which appeared two
decades later, does occasionally go beyond the respective national beltways,
with Gordon Robertson's chapter discussing how Canadian federalism,
Earl
Fry is
professor
of
political science
and
endowed professor
of
Canadian
studies
at
Brigham
Young
University
in
Provo,
Utah.
ι John
Sloan
Dickey,
"Introduction,"
in John
Sloan
Dickey, ed., The
United States
and
Canada
(Englewood
Cliffs,
NJ:
Prentice-Hall,
1964),
l.
I
International
Journal | Spring
2005
| 471 |
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