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P O L I T I C S A N D P O L I C Y Dilemmas of Solidarity Rethinking Distribution in the Canadian Federation Edited by Sujit Choudhry, Jean-François Graudreault-Desbiens, and Lorne Sossin Since the rise of the Canadian welfare state in the aftermath of the Second World War, the politics of social policy and fiscal federalism have been at the centre of federal-provincial relations. Recent events have given impetus for scholars to re-examine these issues. In 2002, the Quebec Commission on Fiscal Imbalance released its report, which introduced the term ‘vertical fiscal imbalance’ into the vocabulary of Canadian politics. Essentially, the commission determined that a disjunction between revenueraising capacity and expenditures involving different orders of government – vertical fiscal imbalance – was an urgent problem that must be addressed. Dilemmas of Solidarity is both a reflection on and response to that finding. Editors Sujit Choudhry, Jean-François Graudreault-Desbiens, and Lorne Sossin bring together an array of respected legal and political scholars to reflect on the Quebec Commission’s findings. The contributors to this volume illustrate how recent debates surrounding Canada’s equalization program suggest alternative ways to approach the issue. The goal of Dilemmas of Solidarity is to stand back from the particulars of different policy debates, to enable scholars to reflect on basic questions regarding redistribution. This fascinating collection will undoubtedly inform a more nuanced and wide-ranging debate both among academics and policy practitioners than has occurred in this past. Sujit Choudhry is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Jean-François Graudreault-Desbiens is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Lorne Sossin is an associate dean and associate professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Contributors: Paul Boothe Sujit Choudhry David Duff Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens Andrée Lajoie Alain Noël Peter H. Russell Richard Simeon Lorne Sossin François Vaillancourt Daniel Weinstock Approx. 224 pp / 6 x 9 / December 2006 Cloth ISBN 0-8020-9126-1 / 978-08020-9126-0 £35.00 $55.00 E Paper ISBN 0-8020-9407-4 / 978-08020-9407-0 £14.00 $21.95 C 42
P O LG I TE INC ES R A NL D I NPT OE RL EI CS YT Rural Women’s Leadership in Atlantic Canada First-hand Perspectives on Local Public Life and Participation in Electoral Politics Louise Carbert Most people are aware of the large and persistent gender imbalance in elected office at all levels of government in Canada, but few appreciate the far greater imbalance that occurs outside of large cities. This deficit arises not from rural voter bias, but from low numbers of female candidates running for winnable seats. The question of why there are so few female candidates has been difficult to answer, largely because we know so little about the pool of potential candidates. Rural Women’s Leadership in Atlantic Canada presents results from a regional field-based study, which confronted this challenge directly for the first time. Louise Carbert gathered together small groups of rural community leaders (126 women in all) throughout the four Atlantic provinces, and interviewed them about their experiences and perceptions of leadership, public life, and running for elected office. Their answers paint a vivid picture of politics in rural communities, illustrating how it intersects with family life, work, and the overall local economy. Through discussion of their own reasoned aversion to holding elected office, and of resistance encountered by those who have put their names forward, the interviewees shed much-needed light on the pervasive barriers to the election of women. Louise Carbert is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University. E-Government in Canada Transformation for the Digital Age Jeffrey Roy UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA PRESS The rapid expansion of the Internet has fueled the emergence of electronic government at all levels in Canada. E-government’s first decade featured online service underpinned by a technically secure infrastructure. This service-security nexus entails internal governance reforms aimed at realizing more customer-centric delivery via integration and coordination across departments and agencies. Yet, as online networking has become more pervasive and public demands for participation rise, pressures for greater openness and accountability intensify. The result is widening experimentation with online democracy. The e-government focus is thus shifting toward issues of transparency and trust – and new possibilities for re-conceptualizing how power is organized and deployed. In sum, the prospects for digital transformation involve the interplay of these for dimensions: service, security, transparency, and trust. This book identifies the main drivers of e-government, assesses the responses of Canada’s public sector to date, and sketches out the major challenges and choices that lie ahead. The findings will be of interest to those studying or working in the world of public sector management and e-governance. Jeffrey Roy is an associate professor in the School of Management at the University of Ottawa. Approx. 176 pp / 6 x 9 / December 2006 17 halftones Cloth ISBN 0-8020-9125-3 / 978-0-8020-9125-3 £28.00 $45.00 E 398 pp / 6 x 9 / Available Paper ISBN 0-7766-0617-4 / 978-0-7766-0617-0 £22.50 $35.00 C 43
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