In Search of Canadian Political Culture - UBC Press

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Street Protests
and Fantasy Parks
Globalization, Culture, and the State
Edited by David R. Cameron
and Janice Gross Stein
The speed and intensity of global integration in the
last two decades have provoked serious debate
about the human impact of globalization and deep
concern about the capacity of the state to provide
social justice. Street Protests and Fantasy Parks
focuses on two dimensions of globalization: the
cultural and social realities of global connection and
the uneasily shifting role of the state. These essays
examine a series of compelling case studies – the
entertainment industry, citizenship, social activism,
and wired communication – to assess the choices
states have and the consequences of those choices
for culture and society.
2002, 192 pages, 6 x 9”
0-7748-0881-0 / 978-0-7748-0881-1 paper $27.95
Rebuilding Canadian
Party Politics
R. Kenneth Carty, William Cross,
and Lisa Young
This book discusses the breakdown of the Canadian
party system in the 1990s and the ongoing struggle
to build its successor. The authors attended local
and national party meetings, nomination and
leadership meetings, and campaign kick-off rallies.
They visited local campaign offices to observe
the parties’ grassroots operations and conducted
interviews with senior party officials, pollsters,
media and advertising specialists, and leader-tour
directors. This book will interest students of party
politics and Canadian political history, as well as
general readers eager to make sense of the changes
reshaping national politics today.
2000, 276 pages, 6 x 9”
0-7748-0778-4 / 978-0-7748-0778-4 paper $29.95
Cycling into Saigon
The Conservative Transition in Ontario
David R. Cameron and Graham White
Democracy
A History of Ideas
Boris DeWiel
Shortlisted for the 2001/2 Donner Prize for the
best book on public policy.
In this fascinating work, the authors examine how
the transition of government in Ontario in 1995
was a surprising success involving, as it did, the
necessity of co-operation between political mortal
enemies. Cycling into Saigon has important lessons
for everyone involved or interested in this key stage
of the electoral process, wherever it takes place.
– The 2000/2001 Donner Prize Jury
[This book] makes an important contribution to the
sparse literature on transitions in Canada and in
parliamentary regimes generally.
– S.R.J. Noel, American Political Science Review
2000, 224 pages, 6 x 9”
0-7748-0814-4 / 978-0-7748-0814-9 paper $29.95
What is democracy? Is it the movement toward
united self-government in which equality is our
highest value? Or is it about preserving the freedom
of individuals? In Democracy: A History of Ideas,
DeWiel argues that neither of these popular
definitions is correct, and that democracy is an
endless battle of true yet contrary ideals. By
specifying the precise values embedded along the
left-right continuum, DeWiel proposes an improved
model of ideological differences for use in empirical
and theoretical studies.
2000, 208 pages, 6 x 9”
0-7748-0802-0 / 978-0-7748-0802-6 paper $32.95
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