The Government of Edward Schreyer

The Government of Edward Schreyer offers a challenging reassessment of the extent to which political parties can and do bring about changes in fundamental social relations.

Why Canada Cares

Debunking common myths about Canada's international human rights policies.

Struggling for Effectiveness

A critical and constructive examination of Canada's assistance to developing countries.

Legislated Inequality

A timely analysis of Canadian temporary labour migration policies.

The Politics and Economics of Eric Kierans

In this political biography, John McDougall argues that the successes and failures of Eric Kierans' public life provide insights into the policy dilemmas that Canada faces in attempting to remain a united and independent country. Since his first political appointment as a minister in Jean Lesage'...

Social Security and National Policy

Nova Scotia's Massachusetts: A Study of Massachusetts-Nova Scotia Relations, 1630 to 1784

This book is primarily concerned with describing and attempting to account for, first, the continuing economic hammerlock Massachusetts had during most of the period from 1630 to 1784 over the neighbouring colony and, second, the various military thrusts sent from New England to the region to the...

Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees

Do parties matter? What effects, if any, do politics have on society? Government, Parties, and Public Sector Employees addresses such long-standing questions in political science by looking at one social group - public sector employees - and examining the hypothesis that parties and governments o...

Staff Relations in the Civil Service

Fighting over God

Untangling the legal and political history of religion from the cultural fabric of Canada.

Governing

A provocative discussion of the key debates, themes, and issues related to political governance, public administration, and regional development.

Sport and Politics in Canada

Active Canadian government in sport is recent. Even after the passage of the Fitness and Amateur Sport Act in 1961, government activity was limited to small grants to national sport governing bodies and cost-sharing agreements with the provinces aimed at increasing participation in sport. By the ...

Limiting the Proliferation of Weapons

An international team of arms control experts addresses important questions raised by the use of export sales restrictions in controlling the spread of weapons. In non-technical language, they examine vital issues relating to ballistic missiles, as well as to nuclear, chemical, biological and con...

Political Corruption in Canada

Canadians assume that their politicians and institutions are relatively free of the corruption they associate with other nations. The editors of this volume argue that this questionable supposition is based on scant evidence and very little serious analysis.

Middle Power Internationalism

The North-South dichotomy is evident not only to political economists and foreign policy makers but to anyone who pays attention to the news. The gravity of the situation has become more pronounced since the admission, by the richer states, of a fiscal deficit problem and the possibility of a rel...

Global Regimes and Nation-States

At a time when environmental issues are prominent on many countries' political agendas, this book examines how one country, Australia, is handling the interplay between international and domestic environmental politics.

Green Meat?

It seems an irrefutable truth that raising animals for meat has become unsustainable. Land is being eroded and destroyed, water resources overdrawn, greenhouse gases overemitted, and energy and crops unnecessarily diverted - all to satiate a growing and inequitable global overconsumption of meat....

Devolution and Constitutional Development in the Canadian North

Six specialists on northern Canadian issues examine the transfer of power from the federal government to the governments of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Land claims, aboriginal self-government, division of the NWT, the territorial governments' pursuit of fuller recognition in Canadian fed...

Changing Maps

How can we organize and govern ourselves successfully in a world of rapid change and increasing interconnection? This book reports the findings of a round table of senior Canadian government officials and private sector executives, exploring fundamental changes in the economy, in culture and valu...

Canadian Foreign Policy, 1977-1992

This volume covers the Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Mexico; Canada's policy towards South Africa; growing peacekeeping efforts around the world; and common international problems such as immigration, drug trafficking, and the impact of trade, aid and human rights on foreign pol...

When Green Growth Is Not Enough

A systematic and thorough comparison between Canada's and Britain's actions on climate change.

A Meech Lake Post-Mortem

The contrasting results of the Bélanger-Campeau Commission and the Citizens' Forum on National Unity, headed by Keith Spicer, will reveal much about the fundamental incompatibilities and conflicts between Quebec's and English-Canada's perspectives on the future of the country. But the debates wil...

Democratic Society and Human Needs

As anti-globalization protests show, the public is searching for ways to explain and rethink material inequity between developed democracies and those across the development divide. Jeff Noonan provides a strategy for analyzing these issues.

Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica

Abigail Bakan argues that there has been a recurrent ideological tradition of resistance to oppression among the black labouring classes in Jamaica. She reveals this pattern through analysis of three periods of mass resistance: the 1831 rebellion led by slaves, the revolt of 1865 in which former ...

Canadian Public-Sector Financial Management

A primer on managing public funds and a sophisticated presentation of how governments actually work.

The Better Part of Valour

Reimagining Canada

At times the deep disagreements surrounding Canada's constitutional debates have led Canadians to wonder whether the country can - or should - survive. In Reimagining Canada Jeremy Webber argues that there is a viable basis for a Canadian community, one which would enjoy the robust allegiance of ...

Socialization and Values in Canadian Society, Volume I

The Game Planners

Ben Johnson's performance at the 1988 Olympics and the Dubin Inquiry are engrained in the memory of all Canadians. A common public reaction to the news that some athletes had taken steroids was that they had had to do so to remain competitive in a system where such things are the norm. But how ha...

Women, Feminism and Development

For the past twenty years feminist grass-root movements, professionals, and researchers have shown how the social construction of gender relations interacts with all forms of imperialism to mould the dominant ideologies of development. Based on a constant dialogue between theory and practice, res...

Canada - An American Nation?

Are Canadians so influenced by the United States that they lack a distinct identity? This question has preoccupied Canadians and Canadianists for years. Canada - An American Nation? is a compilation of Allan Smith's essays on the influence of American society on Canadian identity. Based on the no...

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics, precursor to Statistics Canada, was founded in 1918 as a centralized national agency to replace the piecemeal arrangements that had developed over time and were no longer capable of satisfying twentieth-century statistical needs. David Worton traces the Bureau's...

Belonging

Belonging is about the past, present, and future of Canadian citizenship. Nineteen distinguished individuals, politicians, historians, political scientists, writers and legal scholars, Canadian by birth or by choice, discuss what it means to be a Canadian and how Canadian citizenship must evolve ...

State, Class, and Bureaucracy

Recent explanations of public policy have increasingly focused on "state-centred" theories which emphasize internal state dynamics, as opposed to "society-centred" theories which concentrate on external forces such as interest group pressure. State, Class, and Bureaucracy assesses the fruitfulnes...

The Canadian House of Commons

Organized Labour and Pressure Politics

This study will develop and apply the concepts of "legitimacy" and "mandate" in order to clarify the manner in which organizational goals affect the demands made upon government and upon other organized groups by interest-group leaders.

Aid as Peacemaker

Does development by its nature produce conflict? Are there times when Canada should take sides in Third World conflict? Are there ways that Canadian aid can be used to promote peace? Experts in Third World development pursue answers to these questions.

A Public Purpose

In the clear, vigorous, and candid prose that is his trade mark, Kent recalls his role in the crises and triumphs of the Pearson government: the "Sixty Days of Decision," Walter Gordon's first budget, the flag debate, Medicare, the elventh-hour negotiations with Jean Lesage that averted a constit...

Socialization and Values in Canadian Society, Volume II

Government, International Trade, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism

The practical and economic implications of the recent laissez faire approach to trade in a global economy.

Intellectual Disabilities and Dual Diagnosis

An indispensable survey of the definitions, assessments, and treatments of individuals with developmental disabilities.

The Challenge of Direct Democracy

In October 1992 Canada's political leaders asked voters to accept the Charlottetown Accord, a comprehensive package of constitutional amendments that was the product of years of negotiation, consultation, and compromise. Canadians rejected it outright, effectively halting the country's formal con...

Politics and Ideology in Canada

Politics and Ideology in Canada examines a period of crucial historical change in Canada, beginning in the mid-1970s, when the crisis of the Keynesian welfare state precipitated a transition to a new political order based on the progressive "downsizing" of state involvement in the economy and soc...

The Tory Syndrome

Guide des pays fédérés, 2002

Le Guide des pays fédérés, 2002 présente une série d'articles sur vingt et un pays qui se définissent comme fédérations, et quatre autres qui ont adopté certaines caractéristiques importantes du fédéralisme. Ces analyses portent sur le développement, la dynamique, la constitution et les instituti...

The Unreformed Senate of Canada

Canada: A Middle-Aged Power

Critical Political Studies

A collective picture of modern capitalism suggests that economic prospects, political costs, and implications for human development and freedom under this system are grim indeed. However the possibility of an alternative viewpoint, and an alternative system, provide grounds for optimism. The auth...

Canadian Population Trends and Public Policy Through the 1980s

Welfare, Property Rights and Economic Policy

This volume celebrates one of Canada's most distinguished social scientists and economics scholars. The book contains four essays, with comments, written to honour Gordon, with reminiscences by friends and colleagues from many universities in Canada and the U.S.

Constitutional Origins, Structure, and Change in Federal Countries, Volume 1

Providing examples of diverse forms of federalism, including new and mature, developed and developing, parliamentary and presidential, and common-law and civil law, the comparative studies in this volume examines constitutions in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria...

Minority Men in a Majority Setting

Canada in the Global Village

This text provides an inter-disciplinary critique of the new global economy and information society, tracing its roots in the infrastructures of Canada's development from the canoes and ships of the fur trade, through the railways and telegraph of industrialization, to mass-print media, radio, te...

Leading Constitutional Decisions, Fourth Edition

The Canadian Bill of Rights

Joseph Howe

Social Trust and Human Communities

Many sociologists have maintained that trust is the glue of social life. Trudy Govier confirms this view in a sustained discussion of the concept and contexts of trust, showing that trust is more significant and more prevalent than is usually assumed. She argues that social bonding is built on tr...

Innovation, Science, Environment 06/07, 2006-2007

This first volume in the Innovation, Science, Environment series examines a range of ISE policy priorities, from the broader areas of federal/provincial and city/community involvement in these fields to the international dimensions that influence Canadian politics and governance.

Crisis, Challenge and Change

Canada in the Soviet Mirror

This is an original, thoroughly researched account of the image of Canada in Soviet writings - political, jounalistic and academic - over the entire course of Soviet history. A study of the role of ideology in Soviet foreign affairs, the book traces the influence of an adjusting Marxist-Leninist ...

North Atlantic Triangle

Image-building in Canadian Municipalities

How cities use image-building to define themselves to the world.

Ethics in Public Service

Specialists from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and Sweden focus on topics from the field of public service ethics. They cover promotion of ethics, the teaching of ethics, freedom of information, trade unions, protection of human rights and legal aspects of public service ethics.

Tax, Borrow and Spend

Letting the People Decide

Letting the People Decide is an account of the 1988 Canadian federal election its dynamics and its place in history. The authors analyse the election in terms of both the final result and the campaign dynamics that produced that result. They place the election in context as one in a century of el...

The Rowell-Sirois Report

Shall We Dance?

A proposal for renewed political dialogue in Canada that would realise the common good by giving a significant place to conversation as a means of reconciling our conflicts.

The Flight of the Wild Oats

Making Public Transport Work

An examination of urban and intercity transport, looking at the changes that need to be made to give transit renewed life.

Politics in High Latitudes

Canada, Latin America, and the New Internationalism

Post-war Canadian foreign policy has been characterized by two enduring themes - an ongoing commitment to multilateralism on the one hand, and a substantial commitment to continentalism on the other. In the early 1970s the post-war structures for international politics and economics entered a per...

The Practice of Fiscal Federalism, Vol. 4

Leading scholars and practitioners examine constitutional design and taxing, spending, and regulatory responsibilities at the federal, state/provincial, and local/municipal levels in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the Un...

Dialogues on Constitutional Origins, Structure, and Change in Federal Countries, Vol. 1

An exploration of the origins, structure, and change of twelve federal constitutions.

Autonomy in Subnational Income Taxes

Subnational tax autonomy is a cornerstone of a viable system of fiscal federalism. The underlying principle is that spending by constituent units in a federal or quasi federal country is paid for by revenues that are under the control of that unit. Economists recommend that the taxation base rema...

Recounting Migration

Millions of citizens from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been killed or displaced during decades of political corruption and military conflict. Many forced migrants are young people, who are often seen either as passive victims or as radicalized and amoral child soldiers perpetuating...

The World in Canada

Just as Canada is increasingly at home in the world, the world is increasingly finding a home in Canada. The World in Canada confronts three questions: What are the implications of the dramatic and sustained shift in the Canadian ethnic mosaic for foreign policy? In what ways do diasporas influen...

Towards a Canada-Quebec Union

Dialogues on Distribution of Powers and Responsibilities in Federal Countries, Booklet 2 English

An exploration of the distribution of powers and responsibilities in eleven federal systems.

Independent Foreign Policy for Canada?

Guide des pays fédéraux, 2005

Depuis plus de deux siècles, le fédéralisme montre comment les gens peuvent vivre ensemble tout en conservant leur diversité. Le Guide des pays fédéraux, 2005 perpétue la tradition amorcée par l'édition de 2002; il se fonde sur les travaux de Ronald Watts et de Daniel Elazar et les met à jour, of...

Policy Governance in Multi-level Systems

An examination of trends towards increasing state-society partnerships and intergovernmental collaboration in the face of global economic restructuring.

Dialogues on Diversity and Unity in Federal Countries

These lively, timely, and accessible dialogues on federal systems provide the reader with highlights of each topic, serving as an entry point to the corresponding book, which offers a more in depth, comprehensive exploration of the theme. Whether you are a student or teacher of federalism, workin...

Divided Loyalties: Canadian Concepts of Federalism

Considerations on France

The present translation of Considérations sur la France is made from the critical French edition of R. de Johannet and F. Vermale (Paris: Vrin, 1936), which in turn is based on Maistre's own corrected edition of 1821.

Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada

Given Canada's vast geography and uneven distribution of economic activity, almost all Canadians have at one time or another faced the question of whether an interprovincial move would make them better off.

Canadian Foreign Policy, 1955-1965

This volume documents the decade in which Canada's influence on world affairs was at its apex, and contains speeches and writings of Lester B. Pearson, Sydney Smith, Howard C. Green and Paul Martin.

Canada Among Nations, 1992-93

In Pursuit of the Public Good

In this collection of essays, leading experts in the field of public policy discuss some of the main issues confronting Canadians as we approach a new century: Do we need less government or more? Is the retreat of government in fact serving the public good? Can our political parties provide effec...

The Three Pillars of Public Management

Written especially for the public sector but applicable far beyond it, The Three Pillars of Public Management offers government managers insights that, for the first time, speak directly to their situation. Unlike other management books that promote fads and private-sector models or focus on poli...

Elections in Dangerous Places

From Afghanistan and Iraq to Haiti, Cote d'Ivoire, and Egypt, ill-timed, fraudulent, or poorly managed elections have led to discord, violence, and even regime change. While much of the international community views elections as a critical milestone in the stabilization of war-torn societies, Ele...

Public Budgeting in Canada

Nouvelles Directions

A Diplomacy of Hope

A Diplomacy of Hope is the first comprehensive survey of the history of Canadian diplomacy in the area of arms control and disarmament. Taking much of their information from Canadian archival sources, Albert Legault and Michel Fortmann cover all major negotiations on arms control and disarmament ...

Citizenship, Diversity, and Pluralism

Citizenship has both a vertical and a horizontal dimension. The vertical links individuals to the state by reinforcing the idea that it is "their" state - that they are full members of an ongoing association that is expected to survive the passing generations. Accordingly their relation to the st...

Trojan-Horse Aid

A frank account about Andean aid that asks development workers to leave their hubris and Western recipes at home.

How Ottawa Spends, 1993-1994

A Sovereign Idea

Bringing together the best of Reg Whitaker's essays on democracy, federalism, and the state, A Sovereign Idea will be essential reading for anyone interested in the rise of the idea of democracy in Canada. The essays, each in its own way, are an attempt to discover how a more democratic Canada ca...

Going to War?

A multi-disciplinary study on wartime decision-making, with a focus on how Canada and its allies engage in conflict.

From Peacekeeping to Peacemaking

From Peacekeeping to Peacemaking provides the first extensive examination of Canada's response to the recent disintegration of the Federal State of Yugoslavia. Nicholas Gammer reflects on how Canadian foreign policy was made and on the role of the prime minister in this decisionmaking, showing th...

Role Quests in the Post-Cold War Era

Role Quests in the Post-Cold War Era examines the question of foreign policy change through a comparative analysis of the Great Powers' reactions to the transformations in international relations after the Cold War. Contributors describe and explain the efforts of the United States, the Soviet Un...