Heterogeneous Internal Trade Cost and Its Implications in Trade

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Han
Keyword(s):  
Trade Cost ◽  
Internal Trade

scholarly journals BEYOND THE FLIGHT FROM CONSTITUTIONAL LEGALISM: RETHINKING THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL POLICY POST-CHARLOTTETOWN

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1, 2 & 3) ◽  
pp. 2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujit Choudhry
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Levels Of Detail ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Union ◽  
Institutional Architecture ◽  
Charlottetown Accord ◽  
Internal Trade

A decade after the demise of the Charlottetown Accord in 1992,1 one of the most visible features of federal-provincial relations is the replacement of constitutional with non-constitutional policy instruments to secure many of the same ends — what I term the “flight from constitutional legalism.” Instead of constitutional amendments, the instrument of choice is the non-legal, intergovernmental accord. The leading examples are the Social Union Framework Agreement2 and the Agreement on Internal Trade,3 which in differing levels of detail set out both a normative framework and an institutional architecture to manage the Social Union and the Economic Union, respectively.

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