Canadian Politics, Sixth Edition
Published on 2. June 2014
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-1-4426-0808-5 (ISBN)
Description
The sixth edition of Canadian Politics offers a comprehensive introduction to Canadian government and politics by a highly respected group of political scientists. For this edition, the editors have organized the book into six parts. Part I examines Canadian citizenship and political identities, while Parts II and III deal with Canadian political institutions, including Aboriginal governments, and contain new chapters on the public service and Quebec. Parts IV and V shift the focus to the political process, discussing issues pertaining to culture and values, parties and elections, media, groups, movements, gender, and diversity. The chapters on Parliament, bureaucracy, political culture, political communications, social movements, and media are new to this edition. Finally, three chapters in the last section of the book analyze components of Canadian politics that have been gaining prominence during the last decade: the effects of globalization, the shifting ground of Canadian-American relations, and the place of Canada in the changing world order. Of the 21 chapters in this edition, 9 are new and the remainder have been thoroughly revised and updated.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-0808-5 (9781442608085)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
James Bickerton is Professor of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. His books include, as author, Nova Scotia, Ottawa and the Politics of Regional Development; as co-author, Ties That Bind: Parties and Voters in Canada and Freedom, Equality, Community: The Political Philosophy of Six Influential Canadians; and most recently, as co-editor, Governing: Essays in Honour of Donald J. Savoie. Alain-G. Gagnon holds the Canada Research Chair in Qu bec and Canadian Studies at the Universit du Qu bec Montr al. His most recent books include, as author, The Case for Multinational Federalism and Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty; as co-author, Federalism, Citizenship, and Quebec; and, as co-editor, Federal Democracies as well as Political Autonomy and Divided Societies and Multinational Federalism.
Content
Preface Contributors Part I. Citizenship and Identities 1. Understanding Canada's Origins: Federalism, Multiculturalism, and the Will to Live Together, Samuel V. LaSelva 2. Citizenship, Communities, and Identity in Canada, Will Kymlicka Part II. Institutions: The Constitution and Federalism 3. Constitutional Politics, Roger Gibbins 4. The Dynamics of Canadian Federalism, Richard Simeon, Ian Robinson, and Jennifer Wallner 5. Five Faces of Quebec: Shifting Small Worlds and Evolving Political Dynamics, Alain-G. Gagnon 6. The Rise (and Fall?) of Aboriginal Self-Government, Martin Papillon Part III. Institutions: Executive, Parliament, Bureaucracy, Courts 7. Power at the Apex: Executive Dominance, Donald J. Savoie 8. Parliament: Making the Case for Relevance, David C. Docherty 9. Two Cheers for Bureaucracy: Canada's Public Service, Paul G. Thomas 10. Judicial Politics in the Age of the Charter, Raymond Bazowski Part IV. Culture, Parties, Elections, Media 11. Political Culture(s) in Canada: Orientations to Politics in a Pluralist, Multicultural Federation, Allison Harell and Lyne Desch telets 12. Competing for Power: Parties and Elections in Canada, James Bickerton 13. The Limits to Democratic Reform in Canada, Brian Tanguay 14. Political Communication in Canada: Strategies and Tactics, Alex Marland Part V. Groups, Movements, Gender, Diversity 15. Are Interest Groups Useful or Harmful? Take Two, ric Montpetit 16. Of Pots and Pans and Radical Handmaids: Social Movements and Civil Society, Michael Orsini 17. Women (Not) in Politics: Women's Electoral Participation, Melanee Thomas and Lisa Young 18. Diversity in Canadian Politics, Yasmeen Abu-Laban Part VI. Canada and the World 19. Canada in the World, Mark R. Brawley 20. The Canada-United States Relationship, Stephen Brooks 21. The Changing Nature of Like-Mindedness in Canadian Diplomacy, Andrew F. Cooper Appendix: The Constitution Act, 1982 Index