International Conference on Federalism

Mont-Tremblant, October 1999

List of Background Papers – Mont Tremblant 1999

In order to facilitate discussion during the Mont-Tremblant conference, the Forum commissioned a series of papers. The papers themselves were not discussed during the conference sessions, but served as a means to provide background, and to place the session topics in context.

Ronald L. Watts Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University

CSD Roundtable:Models of Federal Power Sharing

Thomas Fleiner President of the Federalism Institute, University of Fribourg

CSD Roundtable:Models of Federal CitizenshipRights

John Kincaid Professor of Government and Public Service, Lafayette College

EFF: Roundtable:Economic Policy Making:Advantages and Disavantages ofthe Federal Model

Bev Dahlby Director of the Institute for Public Economics at the University of Alberta

EFF Roundtable:Taxing Choices

David Cameron Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto

IGR Roundtables:Structures of IntergovernmentalInstitutions

Brian Opeskin Senior Lecturer, Law Faculty, University of Sydney

IGR Roundtables:Mechanisms forIntergovernmental Relations

Peter J. Spiro Associate Professor, School of Law, HofstraUniversity

CSD Roundtable:Immigration and Migration

Ferran Requejo Professor, Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

CSD Roundtable:National Groups

Robin Boadway Professor of Economics, Queen's University

EFF Roundtable:Burden Sharing of Dividing theSpoils

John Whalley Professor of Economics, University of Western Ontario

EFF Roundtable:Globalization and the Decline ofthe Nation State

Michael Crommelin Dean of Law, University of Melbourne

IGR Roundtables:Dispute Resolution

Roger Gibbins Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary

IGR Roundtable:Local Government / InternationalCities

David Hawkes Former Co-Director of Research for Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

IGR Roundtable:Indigenous Peoples: SelfGovernment andIntergovernmental Relations

Allan A. Warrack Professor of Business, University of Alberta

IGR Roundtable:The role of the Private Sector andIntergovernmental Relations

Susan Philips Professor of Public Administraion, Carleton University

IGR Roundtable:The role of Non-GovernmentalOganizations inIntergovernmental Relations

Lucia Avelar Professor of Political Science, University of Brasilia

CSD Roundtable:Regional Diversity

Daniel Elazar Director, Centre for the Study of Federalism, Temple University

CSD Roundtable:Religious Diversity

Robert Brown Past Chairman, Pricewaterhouse Coopers

EFF Roundtable:Coping with Multi-LevelGovernment: The View from thePrivate Sector

James Bickerton Professor of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University

EFF Roundtable:Regional Economic Development:Building Partnerships or TransferDependencies?

Richard Simeon Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto

IGR Roundtables:Adaptability and Change inFederations

Earl Fry Professor of Political Science and Endowed Professor of Canadian Studies Brigham Young University

IGR Roundtable:Internationalization, Globalizationand Federal Systems

Christine Fletcher Director, North Australia Research Unit, The Australian University

CSD Roundtable:Indigenous Peoples

Subrata Mitra Chairman of the Department of Political Science, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg

CSD Roundtable:Linguistic Diversity

Peter Whiteford Senior civil servant at the Commonwealth Department of Social Security, Canberra

SPF Roundtable:Reconciling Equity andDecentralization: IncomeSecurity

Cecilia Braslavsky Director of Education Investment and Development Federal Ministry of Education

SPF Roundtable:Reconciling Equity andDecentralization: Education

Ade Lucas Professor in Health/Economies, Harvard

SPF Roundtable:Reconciling Equity andDecentralization: Health

Daniel Weinstock TOWARD A NORMATIVE THEORY OF FEDERALISM Department of Philosophy University of Montreal

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