In Search of Canadian Political Culture - UBC Press

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Funding Democratization
Peter Burnell and Allan Ware
Political and Legal Obligation
John W. Chapman and J. Ronald
Pennock
Funding Democratization
examines how money
and politics interact in
emerging democracies.
The contributors
investigate the funding of
political parties in early
North America, financial
uncertainties of party
formation in European
countries, funding of
democratization in new
democracies, and the influence of funding on
contenders for power. They also address the nature
of political competition in countries that are seeking
to embrace, often for the first time, the rules of
democracy. They question in what ways politicians
can help make democracy affordable.
The volume compares important democratizing
countries, such as Russia, Brazil, South Africa,
Spain, and the regions of East Asia and East/
Central Europe. It also investigates the lessons that
emerging democracies can learn from the history
of political finance in today’s more established
democracies. Funding Democratization will be of
interest to political scientists and specialists in
international social and political development.
2006, 250 pages, 6 x 9”
1-4128-0600-3 / 978-1-4128-0600-8
paper $36.95 CRO
At a point in history
marked by dramatic challenges
to the existing
political and social order,
the question of legal
and political obligation
emerges as a focal point
of international concern.
Amid the clamor for
radical change in the established
order, theories
of political obligation demand
renewed examination. In this volume, eighteen
leading specialists in the legal, philosophical, and
political science aspects of the question offer their
views on this timely topic.
2006, 455 pages, 6 x 9”
0-202-30884-7 / 978-0-202-30884-5
paper $41.95 CRO
Coercion
John W. Chapman and
J. Ronald Pennock
Coercion, it seems, like poverty and prejudice,
has always been with us. Political thinkers and
philosophers have been arguing its more direct and
personal consequences for centuries. Today, at a
point in history marked by dramatic changes and
challenges to the existing military, political, and
social order, coercion is more at the forefront of
political activity than ever before. While the modern
state has no doubt freed man from some of the
forms of coercion by which he has traditionally been
plagued, we hear now from all sectors of society
complaints about systematic coerciveness-not only
on the national and international levels, but on the
individual level as well.
2006, 328 pages, 6 x 9”
0-202-30882-0 / 978-0-202-30882-1
paper $39.95 CRO
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