Herman Bakvis has been a professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria since 2005. Prior to that, he spent 26 years at Dalhousie University in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Administration. He has co-authored two OUP Canada titles: the first and second edition of Canadian Federalism (OUP Canada 2001, 2007) and Contested Federalism (OUP Canada 2008).

Grace Skogstad is a professor at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She is the former president of the Canadian Political Science Association and has written and contributed to a number of texts, including The Common Agricultural Policy (Routledge 2009), Internationalization and Canadian Agriculture (UTP 2008), and the first and second edition of Canadian Federalism (OUP Canada 2001, 2007).

Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy, third edition, offers 18 original essays that critically exam the institutions, processes, and policy outcomes of Canadian federalism. Contributed by prominent Canadian political scientists, this collection documents how Canadian intergovernmental relations have evolved in response to key issues-including fiscal deficits, health care and environmental policies-and also evaluates the federal system's ability to meet these challenges.