Resumen de Spending Power, Social Policy, and the Principle of Subsidiarity
This essay argues that theories relating to the spending power theory could be enhanced by an application of the principle of subsidiarity. Subsidiarity shares a number of attributes with federalism, and allows for a conception of spending power as a fl exible tool of governance of the welfare state. Th is essay links social and economic development with Canadian constitutional design by advocating for the use of the principle of subsidiarity when analyzing governmental action in the context of social policy
