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  • Canada and the United States

    Differences that Count, Fourth Edition

    Edited by David Thomas, David Biette ...
    Canada and the United States: Differences that Count investigates why and how the United States and Canada—while so close and seemingly so similar—remain different in so many ways. In seventeen analytical yet readable chapters, leading authorities look at the American and the Canadian ways of doing things. The questions they address affect us all in ways great and small: as citizens, as students, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Maximum Canada

    Toward a Country of 100 Million

    by Doug Saunders ...
    To face the future, Canada needs more Canadians. But why and how many?Canada’s population has always grown slowly, when it has grown at all. That wasn’t by accident. For centuries before Confederation and a century after, colonial economic policies and an inward-facing world view isolated this country, attracting few of the people and building few of the institutions needed to sustain a sovereign ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • E-Government in Canada

    Transformation for the Digital Age

    by Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    The rapid expansion of the Internet has fueled the emergence of electronic government at all levels in Canada. E-government's first decade featured online service underpinned by a technically secure infrastructure. This service-security nexus entails internal governance reforms aimed at realizing more customer-centric delivery via integration and coordination across departments and agencies. Yet, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Left in British Columbia, The

    A History of Struggle

    by Gordon Hak ...
    This comprehensive history of the left in British Columbia from the late nineteenth century to the present explores the successes and failures of individuals and organizations striving to make a better world.Nineteenth-century coal miners and carpenters; Wobblies, Single Taxers, and communists; worker militancy in two world wars; the New Democratic Party; the Squamish Five; the Solidarity movement ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Democratic Illusion

    Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy

    by Genevieve Fuji-Johnson ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations. While deliberative processes are being adopted in an increasing number of cases, decision-making power remains mostly in the hands of traditional elites.In Democratic Illusion, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Politics in North America

    Redefining Continental Relations

    Edited by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Radha Jhappan, Francois Rocher ...
    It is no longer sufficient to examine discrete nation-states in isolation from each other. In Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations, prominent authors from Canada, the United States, and Mexico explore the politics of redefining the institutional, economic, geographic, and cultural boundaries of North America. The contributors argue that the study of politics in the twenty ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Climate Change Policy in North America

    Designing Integration in a Regional System

    Edited by Isabel Studer, Debora Van Nijnatten, A. Neil Craik ...
    While no supranational institutions exist to govern climate change in North America, a system of cooperation among a diverse range of actors and institutions is currently emerging. Given the range of interests that influence climate policy across political boundaries, can these distinct parts be integrated into a coherent, and ultimately resilient system of regional climate cooperation?Climate ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Making Political Choices

    Canada and the United States

    by Harold D. Clarke, Allan Kornberg, Thomas J Scotto ...
    Recent national elections in Canada and the United States have been exciting, consequential contests. In the 2004 federal election in Canada, the Liberal Party narrowly clung to power after a volatile and bitter battle with the new Conservative Party. In 2006, the Conservative Party won a fragile victory, replacing the scandal-ridden Liberal government. In the 2000 American presidential election, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Political Theory of the American Founding

    Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom

    by Thomas G. West ...
    This book provides a complete overview of the American Founders' political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these ideas. The book is intended as a response to the current scholarly consensus, which holds that the Founders' political thought is best understood as an amalgam of liberalism, republicanism, and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • Innovating Development Strategies in Africa

    The Role of International, Regional and National Actors

    by Landry Signé ...
    During the second half of the twentieth century, African states shifted away from state-led development strategies, and are now moving towards a strategy of regional economic integration. In this book, Landry Signé explores the key drivers of African policy and economic transformation, proposing a preeminent explanation of policy innovations in Africa through the examination of postcolonial ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction

    Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire

    by Christopher Britt, Paul Fenn, Eduardo Subirats ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror. The main intellectual aims of this title are the following: the analysis of spectacle, the criticism of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Racial Realignment

    The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965

    by Eric Schickler ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites—such as Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater—set in motion a dramatic and sudden reshuffling of party positioning on ... Read more

    $29.59 USD