I WISH to thank Councillor Tom Johnston (Letters, November 15) for opening up the debate about the Scottish Government’s £100 million a year tax grab from local council tax to shore up educational ...

Official opposition trade and industry spokesperson Enyinna Nkem-Abonta said although his party welcoms the broad thrust of the Bill, it has a disturbing “centralist” flavour. He said: “For most of ...

One thing Kevin “Mini-Me” Rudd would find it hard to do as Prime Minister: be more of a centralist than John Howard. Never mind grabbing waterways and industrial relations powers, the Howard ...

Political parties play a vital role in federal systems, especially as forces for centralization or decentralization. Likewise, they play important roles in the make-up and behavior of courts.

Health care reform may be a moving target, but Bill Petasnick, president and chief executive officer of Froedtert & Community Health, Wauwatosa, said there are some things that can be counted on if ...

A new report calls for a brake on the creation of larger unitary councils, writes the emeritus professor of local politics at De Montfort University. One of the essential ingredients missing from ...

Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The protracted death rattle emanating from the New South Wales state government has set many tongues to wagging of late about the iniquity of fixed terms. In the wake of the Rees government’s ...

John Howard says that he is misunderstood. He is about to take over total control of industrial relations and he wants a bigger say over what the states spend on health and education and vocational ...

In our edited volume, Courts in Federal Countries: Federalists or Unitarists? (University of Toronto Press 2017), experts examine centralizing and decentralizing trends in the jurisprudence of the ...

Tom Griffin (London, OK): Introducing his book Britain since 1918 last month, David Marquand suggested that Britain may be ripe for an outbreak of democratic republicanism. At the time, his colleague ...

Quebec Premier François Legault is condemning this week’s Liberal-NDP deal as an intrusion in provincial affairs, predicting the proposals won’t fly with Canada’s premiers. Echoing concerns he ...