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Manitoba's French-Language Crisis

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Raymond Hébert analyses Manitoba's French-language crisis in detail and considers its local and national implications. For nine months in 1983 and early 1984, beginning with a protest by French-spe...
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  • 25 May 2004
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Hébert considers various theoretical models to explain aspects of the crisis and concludes that the authoritarian personality model is the most relevant. Right-wing authoritarianism exists everywhere and, he argues, under proper conditions, especially demagogic leadership, can provoke populist explosions of racist and prejudiced sentiment; hence the "cautionary" nature of this Canadian tale.
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Price: $37.95
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication Date: 25 May 2004
ISBN: 9780773571914
Format: eBook
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
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Raymond M. Hébert is professor of political studies and Canadian studies, St Boniface College, University of Manitoba.