Bulletin n. 1/2007
June 2007
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Sutcliffe John B.
    Local Government in a Multi-level Setting: Lessons From England and Ontario
    in Regional and Federal Studies , Volume 17, Number 2 / June ,  2007 ,  253-273
    This article analyses the current and future place of local authorities in the European Union through a comparative study of local authorities in Canada. Specifically, the article compares English local government in the EU with the relationship between local government in Ontario and the Canadian federal government. The article concludes that English local government is unlikely to receive a substantially different formal treaty-basis within the EU as a result of the ongoing constitutional treaty debate. The Canadian experience, however, demonstrates the importance of the federal-local relationship, even in the absence of formal constitutional revision. It also indicates that there is acceptance of the necessity of a federal-local relationship as a means of tackling major policy problems facing Canada. Similarly, English local governments will continue to be affected by developments at the EU level and will continue to be involved in attempts to influence policy making at that level. In neither the Canadian nor the EU case, however, should the place of local authorities be exaggerated. They are junior partners in policy making.
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