UNITARY VS FEDERAL

UNITARY ADVANTAGES

• Single, all decisive legislative and/or executive office.
• Simpler management of the economy
• More efficient use of tax dollars.

UNITARY DISADVANTAGES

• Little in the way of power balances
• Slow government response
• Easily lose track of local issues

FEDERAL ADVANTAGES

• Fosters state loyalties
• Practices pragmatism(dealing with things sensibly and realistically
• State governments can experiment with policies, and can learn from success and failures.

FEDERAL DISADVANTAGES

• Prevents creation of a national policy
• Leads to a lack of accountability
• Citizen ignorance