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Comment: ‘Shared rule’ to be as important as ‘self-rule’ in explaining the possibility of federal power sharing.
- UPSC 2000
- 20 marks
- Federalism
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The statement restates Daniel J. Elazar's definition of federalism as "self-rule plus shared rule" (Exploring Federalism, 1987). The two halves mean:
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