A pioneering look at how mixed-blood urban Native people understand their identities and struggle to survive in a world that often fails to recognize them.

This stimulating text considers questions of influence and power within local institutions and decision-making processes using numerous illustrations from municipalities across Canada.

The first comprehensive assessment of citizen engagement in Canada, this volume raises challenging questions, not just about the interests and capabilities of Canadians as democratic citizens, but also about the performance of our democratic institutions.

This volume investigates theoretical and practical aspects of innovative political representation in the early 21st century.

This book delves into the history, structure, mechanisms, and roles of Canada’s political parties.

Offers a broad theoretical understanding of local government boundary reform and informs the wider scholarly discussion and debate regarding institutional change, state structures, and the areal jurisdiction of local governments.

A cogent analysis of legal mobilization as a strategy for social and activist movements.

This volume, by eminent political scientist John Courtney, assesses the history and development of five “building blocks” of Canada’s electoral regime: the franchise, electoral districts, voter registration, election machinery, and plurality voting.

A timely comparative study of state-network interactions in agro-environmental policy-making in the US, Canada, and France.

A superb analysis of how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets.

A timely anthropological examination of the effect of land claims settlements and co-management of resources on the Kluane First Nation of the Southwest Yukon.

Using relational pluralism as a theoretical lens, the author takes a fresh look at the complex issue of aboriginal self-government.

A controversial study showing how the political beliefs of journalists significantly affect the ideological slant of the news, skewing it further to the left than the political stance of the average Canadian.

A probing analysis and critique of the historical dysfunction of the post-colonial African state and the tragic collapse of Liberia.

This award-winning book comprehensively assesses of the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian environmental law.