Acknowledgements

This collection of essays started at the 2018 International Association of Federal Centres Annual Conference hosted by the Australian Centre for Federalism at the anu in Canberra Australia.

We also want to thank the College of Arts and Social Science, the Research School of Social Sciences, the School of Politics and International Relations, and Australian Federalism Centre for their generous support throughout this process. Thanks also to the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia who accepted Tracy as a visiting researcher to provide her time and kind collegiality from expert federalists to complete the manuscript.

Our thanks to Bea Timmer at Brill who has guided us through the publishing process. An extra special thanks to copy editor extraordinaire, Anne Gelling, who with a gentle humour and a striking red pen made the prose in this book eminently more readable.

Finally, Tracy and Andrew want to thank our respective families who endured the longest, crankiest hours of this project.

Erika Arban's research for Chapter 4 was fully funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council (arc ) Laureate Program ‘Balancing Diversity and Social Cohesion in Democratic Constitutions'.

Chapter 5 is a revised and updated version of a conference paper by Alain- G. Gagnon, ‘Internal and external self-determination process of a minority nation: Quebec in a comparative context', given at a colloquium on Qualified Autonomy and Federalism versus Secession in the EU and its Member States, Eisenstadt, 26-8 February 2014.

Anthony M. Sayers's research for Chapter 6 was supported by Insight Grant #43520190964, Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, ‘From Chaos to Cohesion: How Single Member Electoral Districts Shape Political Representation in Canada'.

For Chapter 8, John Phillimore and Vijaya Ramamurthy gratefully acknowl­edge The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (anzsog) for their funding of this research via the project ‘Devolved Governance and Collaboration in the Australian Health System: Is It Working?'.

Christian Leuprecht and Mario Kolling acknowledge support from the Forum of Federations in Ottawa, Canada, and the Fundacion Manuel Gimenez Abad in Zaragoza, Spain, for this project. Chapter 9 builds on and extends ini­tial findings from Christian Leuprecht, Mario Kolling and Todd Hataley, Public Security in Federal Systems (University of Toronto Press, 2018).

Tracy B. Fenwick and Andrew C. Banfield

Illustrations

Figures

6.1 Average district electoral rank of major parties by election 99

6.2 Federal Liberal vote in Atlantic Canada 100

6.3 Federal Liberal vote in Ontario 101

6.4 Federal Liberal vote in British Columbia 102

6.5 Federal Liberal vote in Quebec 103

6.6 Federal Liberal vote in the prairies 104

6.7 Building a national Liberal government 106

6.8 Governing-party seats as percentage of total seats, Quebec provincial elections 107

6.9 Governing-party seats as percentage of total seats, bc provincial elections 108

8.1 Proportion of surveyed lhn board members with association to phn s and other primary care organizations (n=2io) 151

Tables

6.1 Character of federal-provincial intra-party linkages by major party 97

8.1 Proportion of phn board members with association to lhns 150

8.2 lhn board member views on the quality of their board's relationship with phns (n=ig2) 152

10.1 Tax Assignment in an Idealized Federal Context 175

10.2 Classification of Tax Powers at the Sub-Central Government (scg) Level 177

10.3 Modifications to Sub-national Taxation under the Federal Agreement of 1993 180

10.4 Fiscal Consensus 2017: Tax Cuts and Changes to the iib 182

10.5 Relative Weight of the Tax Burden Generated in Argentina (% of Tax Revenue/ gdp) 184