What is Competitive federalism?
Promotes governing as a partnership between the center [federal] and units [states/provinces]. It involves strong pressures decentralization of powers; expansion of levels of government into new policy fields in the form of “competitive expansion”. It involves state/provincial building versus nation building. It allows levels of government to mobilize their populations around competing images of federalism and how it should work. USA is the leading example where competitive federalism is widely practiced.
