Jenna Bednar
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479868858
- eISBN:
- 9781479821303
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479868858.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter explains how subsidiarity boosts the adaptive efficiency of federal systems. The process of adaptation involves pushing federalism's boundaries in search of improved national-state ...
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This chapter explains how subsidiarity boosts the adaptive efficiency of federal systems. The process of adaptation involves pushing federalism's boundaries in search of improved national-state balance as well as selecting beneficial changes and rejecting harmful ones, a job that requires a set of diverse, complementary safeguards. This chapter first describes the model of federal robustness before discussing the two roles of subsidiarity: policy subsidiarity and safeguard subsidiarity. It then considers how policy subsidiarity and safeguard subsidiarity each contributes to the process of constitutional adaptation and the robustness of federal systems. It highlights two key aspects of adaptation where the contribution of subsidiarity is evident: experimentation and selection.Less
This chapter explains how subsidiarity boosts the adaptive efficiency of federal systems. The process of adaptation involves pushing federalism's boundaries in search of improved national-state balance as well as selecting beneficial changes and rejecting harmful ones, a job that requires a set of diverse, complementary safeguards. This chapter first describes the model of federal robustness before discussing the two roles of subsidiarity: policy subsidiarity and safeguard subsidiarity. It then considers how policy subsidiarity and safeguard subsidiarity each contributes to the process of constitutional adaptation and the robustness of federal systems. It highlights two key aspects of adaptation where the contribution of subsidiarity is evident: experimentation and selection.
