Sovereign Idea
Essays on Canada as a Democratic Community
1st Edition
Published on 5. November 1991
352 pages
978-0-7735-6294-3 (ISBN)
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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 can be achieved.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- PART ONE: CLASS AND COMMUNITY
- 1 Images of the State in Canada
- 2 The Liberal Corporatist Ideas of Mackenzie King
- 3 William Irvine and the Farmers in Politics
- PART TWO: LIBERALISM AND NATIONALITY
- 4 "To Have Insight into Much and Power Over Nothing": The Political Ideas of Harold Innis
- 5 Reason, Passion and Interest: Pierre Trudeau's Eternal Liberal Triangle
- PART THREE: FEDERALISM AND DEMOCRACY
- 6 Federalism and Democratic Theory
- 7 Democracy and the Canadian Constitution
- PART FOUR: DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNITY
- 8 Federalism, Democracy and the Canadian Political Community
- 9 Between Patronage and Bureaucracy: Democratic Politics in Transition
- 10 Quebec and the Canadian Question
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
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- F
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