In Search of Canadian Political Culture - UBC Press

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Agenda-Setting Dynamics
in Canada
Stuart N. Soroka
In the Long Run
We’re All Dead
The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint
Timothy Lewis
Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada surveys
the development of eight issues in Canada over
a decade to explore how the salience of issues
changes over time, and to examine why these
changes are important to our understanding of
everyday politics. Stuart Soroka offers one of the
first empirical analyses of the interaction of the
media, the public, and policy makers in Canada and,
more generally, makes an important contribution
to the study of political communications and policy
making well beyond the Canadian context.
2003, 168 pages, 6 x 9”
0-7748-0959-0 / 978-0-7748-0959-7 paper $29.95
In the Long Run We’re All Dead offers the first
comprehensive scholarly account of the vital
public policy issue of fiscal deficits. Lewis deftly
analyzes the history of deficit finance from
before Confederation through Canada’s postwar
Keynesianism to the retrenchment of the Mulroney
and Chrétien years. In doing so, he illuminates how
the political conditions for Ottawa’s deficit elimination
in the 1990s materialized after over twenty
consecutive years in the red, and how the decline
of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the
emergence of politics organized around balanced
budgets.
2003, 288 pages, 6 x 9”
16 b/w illustrations
0-7748-0999-X / 978-0-7748-0999-3 paper $32.95
Hidden Agendas
How Journalists Influence the World
Lydia Miljan and Barry Cooper
Shortlisted for the 2003/4 Donner Prize, Hidden
Agendas systematically examines the role journalists
play in the news-making process. Focusing primarily
on the political orientation of journalists, Miljan and
Cooper investigate the link between what journalists
believe about politics and how they report political issues.
This provocative book should be read by journalists,
politicians, academics, and all Canadians who are
concerned about the hidden agendas of journalists.
2003, 188 pages, 6 x 9”
0-7748-1020-3 / 978-0-7748-1020-3 paper $32.95
Misplaced Distrust
Policy Networks and the
Environment in France, the United
States, and Canada
Éric Montpetit
Shortlisted for the 2003/4 Donner Prize. Citizens
largely share a sense that national and international
governance is inadequate, believing not only that
public authorities are incapable of making the right
policy decisions, but also that the entire network of
state and civil society actors is untrustworthy. Using
agro-environmental policy development in France,
the United States, and Canada as case studies,
Éric Montpetit sets out to investigate the validity of
this distrust by examining the performance of the
relevant networks.
2003, 168 pages, 6 x 9”
0-7748-0909-4 / 978-0-7748-0909-2 paper $29.95
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