Redrawing Local Government Boundaries
An International Study of Politics, Procedures, and Decisions
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.
Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court
Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund
A cogent analysis of legal mobilization as a strategy for social and activist movements.
Misplaced Distrust
Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada
A timely comparative study of state-network interactions in agro-environmental policy-making in the US, Canada, and France.
In the Long Run We're All Dead
The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint
A superb analysis of how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets.
Hunters and Bureaucrats
Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon
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.
Shifting Boundaries
Aboriginal Identity, Pluralist Theory, and the Politics of Self-Government
Using relational pluralism as a theoretical lens, the author takes a fresh look at the complex issue of aboriginal self-government.
Hidden Agendas
How Journalists Influence the News
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.
Collective Insecurity
The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order
A probing analysis and critique of the historical dysfunction of the post-colonial African state and the tragic collapse of Liberia.
Unnatural Law
Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy
This award-winning book comprehensively assesses of the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian environmental law.
Avoiding Armageddon
Canadian Military Strategy and Nuclear Weapons, 1950-1963
An examination of Canadian military thinking on key issues of the nuclear age, such as deterrence, arms control, strategic stability, air defence, and the domestic acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Training the Excluded for Work
Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income
In an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs.
The Integrity Gap
Canada's Environmental Policy and Institutions
This thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada’s response to environmental challenges.
Globalization and Well-Being
Throughout this concise and elegant book, John Helliwell emphasizes well-being as an explicit focus for research and for public policies.
Who are Canada's Aboriginal Peoples?
Recognition, Definition, and Jurisdiction
Timely, innovative, and progressive, this collection provides an essential frame of reference to measure the development of Aboriginal legal policy respecting recognition, definition and jurisdiction in Canada.
Sex and Borders
Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand
A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.
Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada
One of the first empirical analyses of the interaction of the media, the public, and policymakers in Canada, this book makes an important contribution to the study of political communications and policymaking well beyond the Canadian context.
Gendering Government
Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada
This comparative study examines feminist engagement with a broad range of political institutions in Australia and Canada.
Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship
Essays on the Problem of Political Community
A brilliant, ambitious rethinking of the nature of political community and the challenges to modern citizenship by one of Canada's foremost political scientists.
First Do No Harm
Making Sense of Canadian Health Reform
Is there a crisis in Canadian health care? This book provides a concise introduction to the fundamentals of health care in Canada and examine various ideas for reforming the system sensibly.
The Cost of Climate Policy
We all want to reduce the risks of global warming, but how much will this cost? What will it mean on a personal, business, or community level? What policy responses should we expect from our governments?
A Trading Nation
Canadian Trade Policy from Colonialism to Globalization
This brilliantly crafted overview and analysis of the historical foundations of modern Canadian trade policy is the first survey to address the history of Canadian commercial policy in over fifty years.
Street Protests and Fantasy Parks
Globalization, Culture, and the State
The Indian Association of Alberta
A History of Political Action
Best known for its role in spearheading the protest against the infamous 1969 White Paper produced by the Department of Indian Affairs, the Indian Association of Alberta played a critical role in mobilizing First Nations peoples to political action.
Planning Canadian Regions
The first book to consolidate the history, evolution, current practice, and future prospects for regional planning in Canada.
Canada and the Beijing Conference on Women
Governmental Politics and NGO Participation
An examination of how Canada’s policies for the Fourth World Conference on Women were formulated.
At the Edge
Sustainable Development in the 21st Century
This timely book argues for governance based on human responsibility and recognition of the interconnectedness of human and natural systems.
Diplomatic Departures
The Conservative Era in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1984 - 93
The first major scholarly examination of the foreign policy of the Mulroney Conservative era, this collection analyzes free trade with the U.S., a continentalized energy policy, the transformation of peacekeeping into peacemaking, and other departures from traditional Canadian statecraft.
Ethics and Security in Canadian Foreign Policy
This collection brings together a wide range of authoritative, informed perspectives on issues of ethics and security facing Canadians, linking abstract analytical and philosophical questions to the critical and challenging questions of decision-making practice in Canadian foreign policy.
The Politics of Resentment
British Columbia Regionalism and Canadian Unity
The first book to examine the role that British Columbia has played in the evolving Canadian unity debate.
Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast
Forging Truces in the War in the Woods
This thoughtful collection of essays examines forest policy in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia.
Citizens Plus
Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State
Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state.
Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador
The essays in this volume illuminate key conditions for autonomy and development: the definition and redefinition of national territories as cultural orders clash and mix; control of resource bases upon which northern economies depend; and renewal and reworking of cultural identity.
An Overview of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Compensation for Their Breach
Mainville provides clear and practical principles for addressing the breach of Aboriginal and treaty rights and determining appropriate compensation.
Driven Apart
Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy
Heavy Traffic
Deregulation, Trade, and Transformation in North American Trucking
Examines the way in which the regulatory reform of American and Canadian trucking, coupled with free trade, has internationalized this $1.4-billion-a-day industry.
In Search of Sustainability
British Columbia Forest Policy in the 1990s
A provocative, sobering examination of British Columbia's forest industry in the 1990s.
A People's Dream
Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada
In this provocative and passionate book, Dan Russell argues that Aboriginal self-government is an attainable objective best achieved through a constitutional amendment, not through treaties, as has been the preoccupation of provincial and federal governments since 1982. He claims that reliance on treaties as an instrument of self-government is misguided and doomed to failure.